Eighteen vendors focused on driving technology initiatives supporting the creation of industry standards around service oriented architectures (SOA), announced 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 standardization process to Oasis.
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 SCA and SDO specifications can help organizations to create new and transform existing IT assets, enabling reusable services that may be rapidly assembled to meet changing business requirements. These specifications could reduce complexity associated with developing applications by providing a way to unify services regardless of programming language and deployment platform, the group said in a statement.
Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of Oasis, said the Open SOA collaboration furthers the evolution of SCA from specifications to standards and to promoting the broadest possible industry adoption through education and implementation efforts.
The 18 companies making up this group are BEA Systems, Cape Clear, IBM Corp., Interface21, IONA, Oracle, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software, Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, SAP AG, Siemens AG, Software AG, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, TIBCO Software, and Xcalia.
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