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Subject: OASIS Group To Foster SOA App Development
FYI. http://adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=20512 OASIS Group To Foster SOA App Development 4/12/2007 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 |
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