Friday, 23. March 2007
SOA Team Advances, States SDO Specifications, OASIS
Eighteen technology vendors focused on driving technology initiatives supporting the creation of industry standards around Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), has revealed that key Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) specifications have completed incubation and will be formally submitted to OASIS for advancement through its open standards process. The SCA specifications are designed to help simplify the creation and composition of services, critical to building applications using services based on an SOA approach. With these SCA specifications now mature, the partners intend to turn over their standardisation process to OASIS, a non-profit consortium that drives e-business standards.
Additionally, the partners have completed work on the SDO specifications, designed to enable uniform access to data residing in multiple locations and formats, and will turn over stewardship of SDO/Java work to the Java Community Process and non-Java (C++) work to OASIS, the organisation said.
The SCA and SDO specifications can help organisations to more easily create new and transform existing IT assets, enabling reusable services that may be rapidly assembled to meet changing business requirements. These specifications greatly reduce complexity associated with developing applications by providing a way to unify services regardless of programming language and deployment platform. Both are technologies designed to simplify the representation of business logic and business data. Early customers are already implementing and gaining value, the organisation added.
"The submission of SCA to OASIS brings us one step closer to simplifying SOA development across disparate vendors and technologies such as Java, .NET and BPEL," said Matt Quinn, vice president, Product Strategy, TIBCO Software.