Many articles have already been written about service-oriented architecture
(SOA) and Service Component Architecture (SCA), for example, see references
[1] and [2]. In this article we'll focus on a freely available, open source
implementation of the Service Component Architecture that provides a simple
way to implement SOA solutions. This SCA implementation is being developed in
the Apache Tuscany Incubator project. The project started in 2006 and is
being used by many who are looking for a simple SOA infrastructure. The
recent Tuscany SCA version 1.0, which was released in September 2007,
supports the Service Component Architecture specifications 1.0. In addition
to implementing the SCA specifications, Tuscany is also a nursery for new
ideas. Some of these ideas will f... (more)
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a simple model for creating
service-oriented applications. This article highlights the benefits of SCA
and introduces SCA concepts by walking through an example. The example has
been developed using the Apache Tuscany open source project
(http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/). All the sample code in this article
is licensed under the Apache License... (more)