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Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] OASIS Group To Foster SOA App Development
Maybe we can add this topic to our telcon tomorrow Frank On Apr 17, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Ken Laskey wrote: > As I'm finding more common with OASIS work, the questions are: > > 1. why can't we all work together? > > 2. will any two specs have anything to do with each other? > > 3. will interoperability be better or worse for the efforts? > > Ken > > > On Apr 17, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Tom Merkle wrote: > >> FYI. >> >> >> >> http://adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=20512 >> >> >> >> OASIS Group To Foster SOA App Development >> >> 4/12/2007 >> >> By Kurt Mackie >> >> Efforts to simplify application development in SOA (service- >> oriented architecture) environments have been launched under the >> Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information >> Standards, or OASIS, a nonprofit electronic-business standards >> consortium. >> >> These SOA standardization efforts will be spearheaded by a new >> group at OASIS called Open Composite Services Architecture (Open >> CSA). The Open CSA member section consists of more than 15 >> companies involved in various aspects of enterprise SOA development. >> >> The main focus of the Open CSA group will be to foster >> specifications for service component architecture (SCA) and >> service data objects (SDO) in an SOA. These specs, when released, >> will be available to the community on a royalty-free basis. >> >> The specs will speed up SOA application development, according to >> Karla Norsworthy, vice president, IBM Software Standards. >> >> "The adoption of SCA/SDO will provide the missing link between >> process and data in composite SOA application implementation," >> Norsworthy stated in an OASIS announcement. "Our customers are >> enthusiastic about the capabilities of these specifications, which >> dramatically improve developers' ability to create applications >> and solutions in an SOA style." >> >> The aim of the SCA effort is to "more easily design and transform >> IT assets into reusable services," according to an announcement >> issued by OASIS. >> >> SCA consists of two components (implementation and assembly) that >> divide an SOA application into steps, thereby helping to speed up >> development time, according to a description at IBM's Web site. >> >> SDO is a way for programmers to manipulate data from different >> sources. Those sources might include relational databases, XML >> sources, Web services and enterprise information systems. SDO >> helps to simplify the handling of data for applications in an SOA >> environment, as described at IBM's site. >> >> SCA and SDO were created by an informal alliance of 18 software >> vendors in an organization called the Open SOA Collaboration, >> which elected to develop its specifications through OASIS. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Tom Merkle >> >> >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------- > Ken Laskey > MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 > 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 > McLean VA 22102-7508 > > > >
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