Open SCA 1.0.1 Beta Available!

The Open SCA Feature Team has just released a beta milestone for a refresh of Open SCA support for WebSphere Application Server V7. The new level of code adds an implementation for JMS bindings for the default messaging provider as well as JEE integration scenarios where JEE applications can be enriched with SCA annotations and leverage the SCA SOA programming model benefits from within your JEE applications. Similar to the SCA 1.0.0 Feature Pack available since Dec 2008, the implementation derives its architectural direction from specifications at OSOA and source origins are derived from the open source project Apache Tuscany.

The beta milestone is available externally here and as usual with WebSphere Beta programs comes with a support forum for Q&A. Happy SOA Programming!

Steve Kinder

In case you thought the SCA rock stopped rolling...

I'm very pleased to announce to this community that we have made active the first beta of the newly re-based Feature Pack for Service Component Architecture for WAS V7.0! My team has been killing themselves, slaving away using new agile processes, keeping on top of the latest WAS builds to bring you this technology on the new WAS! To sweeten the pot for some of you out there, and you know who you are, we are even offering the feature pack beta in a popular VMWARE distribution which is configured to run a SUSE Linux guest with the SCA Feature Pack and WAS V7.0 betas pre-canned and ready for you to play with. Our development and beta teams are excited to engage all of you SOA application developers out there-- welcome!

Beta details here. Of course, our code is based on the Tuscany open source project which I've blogged about before.

I want to thank all of my development and beta team members for all of their hard work.

Tuscany Graduated

A quick shout out to my colleagues and all the folks who have worked so hard to develop an open community which supports Service Component Architecture. The Tuscany project at Apache has recently been promoted from an incubator project to a fully endorsed ASF top level project. This promotion recognizes the community for fostering an open and diverse membership, demonstrating capability to deliver stable, working implementations of the technology and also garnering the votes and confidence of the Apache Board. Congratulations on your success! Super job.

It really is Christmas Early... or is that Holiday Season?

Hot off the presses, a refresh of the latest externally available beta drop of the SOA Feature Pack for WebSphere V6.1 is available here. This feature pack leverages the Apache Tuscany open source technology from the Apache Incubator project to provide an implementation of the published Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Object (SDO) specifications implemented at by the OSOA Collaboration of vendors.
If you haven't heard of SCA and SDO, where have you been? :-) We are very interested in getting feedback on what we are doing right, but especially what we are doing wrong with these new SOA related programming and assembly model concepts.

Happy Coding...

Steve Kinder

p.s. I forgot to mention that the SOA Feature Pack installation also installs the Web Service Feature Pack, as we base our Web Service support on the new AXIS-2 runtime. If you happen to download the SOA Feature Pack, you get both feature packs.