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Open standards for SOA
We fully support the raise of open standards supporting Service Oriented Architecture.
Java Specifications
Xcalia believes strongly in the Java community; specifically, the Java Community Process. Xcalia has been a participant for years, beginning with JSR 12, "Java Data Objects", and continuing with JSR 243, "Java Data Objects 2.0", JSR 220, "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0", and CommonJ's "Service Data Objects", originally led by IBM and BEA, now driven by OpenCSA, a Member Section within the OASIS standard organization..
We are also unique in that we fully implement the Java 2 Connector Architecture standard (J2C, formerly JCA). That means that you can plug the Xcalia Intermediation Core™ into any major application server and enjoy the full benefit of XA transaction support in your application.
SDO: Service Data Objects
In a joint press release on November 30th 2005 a major announcement about the imminent formal standardization of the Service Data Objects (SDO) specification was made by IBM, BEA, Xcalia Oracle, SAP, and Siebel. In response to requests from customers and joint Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners, Xcalia and these other software vendors have been collaborating on specifications for building systems that use a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which aim to provide developers with simpler and more powerful ways of constructing applications based on SOA. These specifications are published under royalty-free terms.
JDO: Java Data Objects
The Xcalia Intermediation Core™ is a leading implementation of the JDO standard. Many ideas from the Core have made their way into the next version of the standard, JDO 2.0. Even before JDO 2.0 is final, you will see many JDO 2.0 preview features, so that you can get a first-hand look at what's coming. Mind you, these aren't just experiments on your dime; these preview features are production-quality in the product, with the small caveat that they might change slightly once the specification becomes final.
Since JDO's beginning, back in 1999, Xcalia (then LIBeLIS) was firmly behind the specification, being among the first to implement and successfully sell a JDO-compliant product.
EJB 3.0: Enterprise JavaBeans
While Xcalia is strongly behind JDO, we also think that choice is a good thing. We are already planning an EJB 3.0 entity beans preview. Under the covers, the very same transparent object persistence engine will be at work, just accessed through a slightly different interface. If the EJB 3.0 EntityManager is for you, then so are we.
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