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> Subject: [announce] OASIS Advances Standards to Simplify SOA
> Application Development: Open CSA Forms
> From: "Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>
> Date: Wed, April 11, 2007 10:15 am
> To: <announce@lists.oasis-open.org>
> 
> ** Link to this press release at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-04-11.php **
> 
> OASIS Advances Standards to Simplify SOA Application Development
> 
> Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) Member Section Forms 
>  
> Boston, MA, USA; 11 April 2007 -- OASIS, the international standards
> consortium, today announced the formation of the Open Composite Services
> Architecture (Open CSA) Member Section, a new initiative to advance
> standards
> that simplify Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) application
> development. Open
> CSA will promote the further development and adoption of the Service
> Component
> Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) families of
> specifications,
> which will be provided to the community on a Royalty Free basis.
> 
> SCA helps organizations more easily design and transform IT assets into
> reusable services that can be rapidly assembled to meet changing business
> requirements. SDO lets application programmers uniformly access and
> manipulate
> data from heterogeneous sources, including relational databases, XML data
> sources, Web services, and enterprise information systems.
>  
> Gartner analysts, Daniel Sholler, Jess Thompson, and Yefim V. Natis
> observed,
> "SCA is an ambitious initiative, intended to offer mainstream software
> projects
> an easy-to-use way to deploy consistently well-designed, multiplatform
> service-oriented business applications." In their 26 March 2007 report,
> "Long-Awaited SCA Initiative Begins to Gain Momentum," the analysts
> note that,
> "This approach would simplify the design and deployment of services and
> establish a 'transportable' set of engineering skills for SOA design.
> [SCA
> would] enable many of the static analysis features that developers
> have come to
> expect in programming environments, but that have been absent in
> services (such
> as dependency analyses and type checking)."
> 
> Both SCA and SDO were created by the Open SOA Collaboration, an
> informal group
> of 18 software vendors. After successfully shepherding the specifications
> through their incubation phase, these vendors selected OASIS as the most
> effective venue for advancing SCA and SDO through the open
> standardization
> process.
> 
> "OASIS appreciates the work of the Open SOA Collaboration to see these
> specifications through their incubation stage and then contribute them
> into the
> open standards process," noted OASIS president and CEO, Patrick Gannon.
> "Advancing this work within OASIS will enable the SCA and SDO
> specifications to
> receive input from a broader international community of software
> developers,
> systems integrators, and users. The Open CSA Member Section will be
> able to
> coordinate the standardization of multiple specifications, provide
> education,
> and promote implementation in order to achieve the most extensive 
> industry
> adoption of this work."
> 
> The Open CSA Member Section will oversee several new OASIS Technical
> Committees
> for the SCA and SDO families of specifications. Everyone is invited to
> participate in this work. Charters for these new Committees will be
> available
> in the coming weeks. 
> 
> Members of the Open CSA Member Section include Active Endpoints,
> Avaya, BEA
> Systems, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle, Primeton, Progress Software, Red Hat,
> Rogue Wave
> Software, SAP AG, SOA Software, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, Xcalia, and
> others.
> 
> 
> Support for Open CSA
> 
> Active Endpoints
> "Open CSA provides the infrastructure specifications that allow
> developers to
> transform a wide variety of IT assets into reusable services. We
> believe that
> the Open CSA work, combined with WS-BPEL, delivers tremendous value to
> organizations aiming to implement applications in a service-oriented
> architecture.  We are pleased to participate in the Open CSA
> initiative," said
> Chris Keller, VP R&D, Active Endpoints, Inc.
> 
> BEA Systems
> "BEA is excited about the possibilities for this new member section,
> and we
> look forward to being involved in the development of high quality
> specifications that will be a true benefit to the software development
> community," said Michael Rowley, BEA Technical Director and Standards
> Architect.
> 
> Hitachi
> "Hitachi believes that the launch of the OASIS Open CSA Member Section
> could be
> a significant cornerstone of an SOA. Technologies included in Open CSA
> will
> enable much broader adoption of SOA, providing methods for the
> implementation
> of 'services' in more efficient ways. It is a great honor for us to be
> a part
> of these activities, and we intend to actively participate," said Takao
> Nakamura, Executive General Manager, Software Division, Hitachi Ltd.
> 
> IBM
> "We are delighted with the SCA and SDO submission to OASIS, and
> support the
> creation of the Open SCA Member Section to oversee their future
> development and
> stewardship. The adoption of SCA/SDO will provide the missing link
> between
> process and data in composite SOA application implementation. Our
> customers are
> enthusiastic about the capabilities of these specifications, which
> dramatically
> improve developers' ability to create applications and solutions in an
> SOA
> style," said Karla Norsworthy, Vice President, IBM Software Standards,
> IBM
> Corporation. 
>   
> Oracle
> "Oracle is excited to be a founding member of the OASIS Open CSA
> Member Section
> and to continue to help drive the development and adoption of the SCA/SDO
> specifications. With these specifications now becoming part of the open
> standards process, we look forward to working within the larger OASIS
> community
> to build consensus and deliver these important and comprehensive SOA
> standards
> to the industry," said Jeff Mischkinsky, director of Oracle Fusion
> Middleware
> and Web Services Standards, Oracle. 
> 
> Primeton 
> "The OASIS CSA Member Section is a new step toward a long term goal.
> We look
> forward to fruitful collaborations with other members for the
> improvement and
> adoption of SCA/SDO standards," said Chris Cheng, VP of Primeton
> Technologies.
> 
> Progress Software
> "Progress Software is pleased to be a founding supporter of the Open CSA
> effort, and to have the opportunity to help build what will become an
> important
> technology for the next generation of SOA developers. This effort
> dovetails
> nicely with our world-class integration, management, and mediation
> technologies, and we look forward to bringing significant advantages
> to SCA
> developers in our upcoming product releases. Standardizing the SCA
> framework in
> an open and collaborative forum like OASIS is an important step for these
> specifications," said Gordon Van Huizen, vice president and general
> manager of
> the Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software. 
> 
> Red Hat
> "Red Hat is pleased to help push SCA into the open standards process
> under
> OASIS and believes that the resulting work will be important for
> interoperable
> SOA foundations," said Mark Little, Director of Standards, Red Hat.
> 
> Rogue Wave Software
> "SCA and SDO standards are key to helping our customers adopt SOA without
> sacrificing their existing technology investments. With HydraSCA and
> HydraSDO,
> Rogue Wave Software has delivered scalable, high performance
> implementations of
> the SCA and SDO specifications.  We look forward to working in the
> Open CSA
> group to continue to mature and evolve SCA and SDO," said Patrick
> Leonard, vice
> president of product development, Rogue Wave Software.  
> 
> SAP AG
> "SCA and SDO are important technologies that will simplify service
> composition,
> increase composite application development productivity and help SAP
> customers
> achieve higher business agility. We are excited to have the
> opportunity to
> participate in the Steering Committee of the newly formed Open CSA Member
> Section and look forward to working with the OASIS community on the
> standardization of this important set of specifications," said Michael
> Bechauf,
> vice president of industry standards, SAP AG. 
> 
> SOA Software
> "Open CSA provides an opportunity for advancing industry consensus in
> providing
> end-user organizations with a consistent approach to standards-based
> design,
> modeling, representation, lifecycle management and governance of
> composite
> services and their supporting architectures. Having explicit
> standards-based
> architectural support, along with an accompanying assembly-oriented SOA
> programming model for composite services, provides user organizations
> with
> choice, flexibility and predictability as they adopt compositional
> application
> models that enable the realization of business-driven IT value," said 
> Frank
> Martinez, Executive Vice President, Product Strategy, SOA Software.
> 
> Sun Microsystems
> "Sun is pleased to join the OASIS Open CSA Member Section to lend our
> expertise
> in standards and component technologies to the direction of this work.
> Composition of services continues to be challenging for developers,
> and Sun
> believes that having richer, standardized metadata supporting this
> task can
> help to simplify software development for our customers," said Mark
> Hapner,
> Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> 
> TIBCO
> "The formation of OASIS Open CSA is a significant milestone for the
> developers
> and vendors responsible for taking SOA forward within the industry. As
> one of
> the first vendors to market with an SCA-based service container for the
> enterprise (TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid), we understand the
> importance of
> supporting open standards as a foundation of service-oriented,
> event-driven
> enterprise architectures," said Matt Quinn, Vice President of Product
> Management and Strategy at TIBCO Software.
> 
> 
> Additional information:
> 
> OASIS Open CSA Member Section
> http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/
> 
> Open SOA Collaboration
> http://www.osoa.org/
> 
> 
> 
> About OASIS:
> 
> OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
> Standards) is
> a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
> convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves
> set the
> OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly
> designed to
> promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The consortium
> produces
> open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and
> standardization
> efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets.
> Founded in
> 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600
> organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
> http://www.oasis-open.org
> 
> 
> Press contact:
> 
> Carol Geyer
> OASIS Director of Communications
> carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
> +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office)
> +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)
> 
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