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Leading Technology Vendors Announce Completion of Specifications Designed to Simplify SOA Application Development
Open SOA Collaboration Chooses OASIS to Advance SCA and SDO Specifications
PARIS, FRANCE AND PALO ALTO, CA – March 19th, 2007 – Eighteen leading technology vendors focused on driving technology initiatives supporting the creation of industry standards around service oriented architectures (SOA), today 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 more easily create new and transform existing IT assets, enabling reusable services that may be rapidly assembled to meet changing business requirements. These specifications greatly reduce complexity associated with developing applications by providing a way to unify services regardless of programming language and deployment platform. Both are technologies designed to simplify the representation of business logic and business data. Early customers are already implementing and gaining value.
“We applaud the Open SOA Collaboration for reaching this milestone and for choosing to take the next step and advance this important work through an open standards process,” said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. “We look forward to furthering the evolution of SCA from specifications to standards and to promoting the broadest possible industry adoption through education and implementation efforts.”
Since November 2005, 18 companies have joined the effort to work on new industry specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. Partner companies include BEA Systems, Cape Clear, IBM Corporation, 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. Together, these companies have achieved significant progress around SCA and SDO specifications.
The partners will continue to incubate and drive technology initiatives focused on simplifying SOA application development. Additionally, the group’s vendor-neutral Web site (www.OSOA.org) will continue to serve as an information resource for access to draft specifications and white papers, and provide a forum for industry input and feedback.
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. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other
organization along with standards for 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. For more information, visit
www.oasis-open.org.
About Open SOA
The Open SOA Collaboration represents an informal group of industry
leaders that share a common interest: defining a language-neutral programming model that meets the needs
of enterprise developers who are developing software that exploits Service Oriented Architecture
characteristics and benefits. The Collaboration is not a Standards Body; it is a set of vendors who wish
to innovate rapidly in the development of this programming model and to deliver Specifications to the
community for implementation. These specifications are made available to the community on a Royalty Free
basis for the creation of compatible implementations. When mature, the intent is to hand these
specifications over to a suitable Standards Body for future shepherding. For more information, visit www.osoa.org.
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.
Xcalia, the Xcalia logo, and Xcalia Intermediation Core are registered trademarks of Xcalia.
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Kurt Foeller
xcalia@foellercom.com
Phone: +1 (415) 578-3251
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