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Leading Technology Vendors Extend Collaboration on SOA Technologies, Mark Major Milestones with New Partners and Significant Technical Progress
Group Advances SCA and SDO Specifications to Help Simplify Composition and Creation of SOA-based Applications
Paris, France and San Jose, CA — July 26, 2006 — Signifying the growing interest in and adoption of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), several leading technology vendors, who have been working together to create Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) specifications today announced key achievements, including a significant increase in industry involvement and advancements in the development of SOA-related specifications and technologies. The group also launched a vendor-neutral Web site (www.OSOA.org) to serve as an information resource for access to draft specifications, white papers, and for providing a forum for industry input and feedback.
Since agreeing to work together on new industry specifications to simplify SOA application development in November 2005, BEA Systems, Inc., IBM, IONA, Oracle, SAP AG, Sybase, Xcalia and Zend have been joined by Cape Clear, Interface21, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software (formerly Sonic Software), Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, Software AG, Sun Microsystems and TIBCO Software, Inc.
With the new partners on board, the group of 17 organizations spans SOA and applications companies to infrastructure and open source providers. Together, they have achieved considerable technical progress in developing SCA and SDO technologies, including new and updated draft specifications. The SCA specifications are designed to help simplify the creation and composition of business services while the SDO specifications focus on uniform access to data residing in multiple locations and formats.
According to a March 2006 Gartner report entitled “SCA Is a Winner in the Quest to Establish a Common Notation for SOA”, Gartner Research VP Jess Thompson, states, “One of the most important aspects of SCA is that it establishes a foundation for a standard notation for expressing a standard set of concepts for specifying service-oriented architecture.”
The group’s work has already resulted in the development of new draft SCA specifications for a declarative policy framework; improved description of connectivity with bindings specifications for JMS, JCA and Web Services; and new BPEL and PHP authoring models. In addition, draft specifications for Service Assembly; Java and C++ service authoring; and SDO have been updated.
The SCA and SDO specifications can help organizations to more easily create new and transform existing IT assets, enabling reusable services that may be rapidly assembled to meet changing business requirements. These specifications can greatly reduce complexity associated with developing applications by providing a way to unify services regardless of programming language and deployment platform. Both are emerging technologies designed to simplify the representation of business logic and business data. For more information, visit www.osoa.org.
SCA/SDO Collaborators
BEA
“As early partners in this effort, it’s exciting to see our collaboration
expanded with innovative companies that have also recognized the impact SCA and SDO specifications can
have in moving forward SOA adoption and deployments,” said Ed Cobb, vice president, Architecture &
Standards for BEA Systems, Inc. “We’re also encouraged by the technical progress we’ve made since our
original announcement late last year.”
CapeClear
“SCA addresses the need for a comprehensive, cross-platform component
model for SOA,” said Jim Rivera, VP Product Management, Cape Clear Software Inc. “We look forward to
collaborating with the other partners in shaping the SCA specification to ensure that our customers can
realize the full benefits of SOA.”
IBM
“IBM is very pleased on the progress made by the collaboration over the last 8
months,” said Karla Norsworthy, vice president, software standards, IBM Software. “The enhancements to
the SCA and SDO specifications in terms of ease of use, broadened technology applicability and
enterprise quality of service characteristics are exactly what are customers are demanding in their SOA
solutions. We are delighted also by the addition of the new collaboration partners who will bring broad
marketplace expertise into the collaboration work.”
Interface21
“Interface21 is the company behind the Spring Framework, the world's
favorite framework for enterprise Java development,” said Rod Johnson, CEO, Interface21. “We recognize
the value that a service-oriented approach brings to enterprise architecture, and are delighted to be
supporting the SCA initiative through the use of Spring as a first-class component implementation
choice. Interface21 has been at the forefront of innovation in the enterprise programming model since
2003 and brings this expertise to the collaboration. We look forward to working with other leading
vendors to make SCA easy and productive for developers to adopt.”
IONA
“We are making excellent progress in the advancement of the SCA and SDO
specifications, including good alignment with the SOA Tooling Platform Project at Eclipse, mappings for
JAX-WS, and significant progress on the policy framework and protocol bindings, among many other areas,”
said Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA and SCA Policy Working Group co-chair. “The addition of new partners to
the SCA/SDO initiative is exciting and we look forward to their contributions as we drive toward
completion of the specifications and eventual submission to a standards body.”
Oracle
“Oracle welcomes the newest partners to join the collaboration and looks
forward to working with these companies to further advance these specifications,” said Steven G. Harris,
vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle. “By helping to create and refine the SCA and SDO
specifications, we believe our customers can quickly realize the full benefits of a standards-based
Service-Oriented Architecture.”
Primeton Technologies
“As a leading vendor of component-oriented development
platform in China, Primeton is acutely aware the need for a cooperative standard to orchestrate the
highly heterogeneous IT environment that characterizes its elite customer base of large banks, telcos,
and manufacturers,” said Larry Huang, CTO, Primeton Technologies. “Primeton hopes to bring a Chinese
perspective to the SCA/SDO effort and to facilitate its adoption in China.”
Progress Software
“The service component architecture (SCA) specification is a
promising initiative to provide a simplified yet powerful component model for SOA,” said Gordon Van
Huizen, vice president of Sonic and Actional product lines at Progress Software. “SCA moves the industry
toward a model in which components can be connected and assembled using a common framework whether
they’re deployed on an application server, across a distributed, ESB environment or connected through
Web services.”
Red Hat
“Red Hat is focused on delivering freedom of choice and value to its
customers, and we believe that SCA is an important specification for implementing heterogeneous and open
SOA systems for our end users,” said Carl Trieloff, Senior Consulting Engineer, Red Hat. “SOA
environments which are well-integrated with Linux and other SOA technologies and platforms are critical
for our enterprise clients. Red Hat looks forward to participating in the development and collaboration
of SCA.”
Rogue Wave Software
"SCA provides a standard way for Rogue Wave Software to deliver
high performance SOA solutions,” said Patrick Leonard, vice president, product development, Rogue Wave
Software. “The Rogue Wave® Hydra Suite supports the SDO specification and is highly compatible with the
SCA architecture. As such, we provide solutions that not only comply with these standards, but also help
drive adoption and evolution of them, which is a part of our ongoing commitment to our customers and to
the industry as a whole."
SAP
“Simplifying the way SOA applications are built and managed is a key focus area
for customers, and the technical progress announced today is an important step forward in creating
common methodologies and best practices across the industry that customers can leverage,” said Michael
Bechauf, vice president, industry standards, SAP. “It’s exciting to see this partnership continue to
expand and become a truly collaborative effort across the industry, reflecting the importance of
establishing industry standards around SOA.”
Software AG
“IT organizations have to manage heterogeneous environments including
multiple application silos,” said Ivo Totev, VP of Product Marketing as Software AG. “The concept of SOA
addresses these challenges, but needs a platform and language neutral initiative such as SCA/SDO to
unfold its full power.”
Sun
“SCA represents an important area of evolution for SOA and Web Services
standards,” noted Mark Hapner, SOA Strategist and Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems. “Sun is
committed to providing input to the SCA initiative, and supports a standardization and specification
process which is inclusive and yields technology that is simple, easy-to-implement and can succeed in
the market.”
Sybase
“Sybase is pleased with the significant progress of SCA and SDO. Sybase's
Unwired Enterprise vision is to increase information value by extending it to the true point-of-action.
Towards this end, Sybase leads the Eclipse Foundation's STP open tools project based on SCA as the
composition model,” said Kathleen Schaub, vice president of product management and marketing, Sybase,
Inc. “Delivery of all these important open standards will help Sybase deliver on our vision by
accelerating enterprise ability to create agile, information-rich business processes.”
TIBCO Software, Inc.
“Working together with some of the most innovative vendors in
the space demonstrates a true commitment to educating more companies on the importance of
service-oriented architectures,” said Matt Quinn, vice president, Product Strategy, TIBCO Software Inc.
“Refining technology and vendor-neutral specifications, like SCA and SDO, that give organizations a
better, easier way to develop, manage and deploy services across an enterprise service bus and service
containers is not only important, but essential to our customers.”
Xcalia
“As a founding partner of the SDO
specification with IBM and BEA back in 2004, Xcalia is very pleased to see its widespread adoption by
the other prominent enterprise software vendors” said Eric Samson, Founder and CTO of Xcalia. “We are
seeing good traction in the field too and several of our customers plan to implement SDO in upcoming
projects that require more open communication between heterogeneous data types and systems.”
Zend
“Zend is very pleased to see the SDO and SCA community support expanding to
include additional leading edge partners to help shape and drive the initiative in their solutions,
which on the whole better serves the broader customer issues in achieving their SOA objectives,” said
Michael Pinette, VP Strategic Alliances and Business Development, Zend Technologies. “Accelerating the
pace of adoption at the industry, customer and solution provider level in new compliant products and
services will benefit all parties.”
About Xcalia
Xcalia provides intermediation software to create dynamic transactional composite
applications. The Xcalia Intermediation Platform™ combines legacy, mainframe and
database resources with web services to dynamically integrate and orchestrate
application business processes. As a critical requirement for implementing SOA, it
uses metadata to describe services and automatically executes transactions at
runtime. Xcalia allows enterprises to quickly respond to changing business
requirements and eliminates the need for costly manual integration. Xcalia, founded
in 2000, is powering high-volume transactional environments in over 50 companies.
Headquartered in Paris, France, it has offices in the US, UK, and Germany. The
company is privately held. For more on Xcalia, visit www.xcalia.com.
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