Understanding Sca Service Component Architecture

Use SCA to Simplify the Development and Delivery of Service-Based Applications Using Service Component Architecture (SCA), enterprises can radically simplify the development and delivery of service-based applications, so they can build cost-effective systems faster and drive more business value from them. InUnderstanding SCA (Service Component Architecture), two leading experts offer the first practical, realistic, and independent guide to SCA for everyone involved in evaluating, architecting, implementing, or managing it. Drawing on extensive experience in developing both enterprise systems and SCA standards, Jim Marino and Michael Rowley show how SCA makes it easier to build systems from interconnected, heterogeneous, and widely-distributed parts. They clearly explain SCArs"s key ideas, demonstrate how it responds to the twin challenges of complexity and reuse, and show how it fits with Java EE, .NET, and SOA. Next, they illuminate every essential SCA concept, including services, components, composites, and domains, offering straightforward code examples built with the Java-based programming model for SCA. Coverage includes Objectively determining whether, where, and when to implement SCA Reducing costs and accelerating delivery by implementing SCArs"s proven architecture for software reuse Building an SCA-based foundation for sharing application resources and logic Mastering best practices for SCA development Utilizing key SCA concepts such as composition, policy, wires, and bindings Developing modular applications that are easy to integrate Configuring cross-application policies such as security and reliability Using BPEL with SCA to provide applications with long-running process capabilities Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture)is for developers constructing solutions that follow SCA standards; architects planning and designing SCA-compliant application architectures; technical executives who want to make better strategic decisions about SCA; and software customers demanding more reliable, cost-effective, and timely solutions. Preface Chapter 1: Introducing SCA Chapter 2: Assembling and Deploying a Composite Chapter 3: Service-Based Development Using Java Chapter 4: Conversational Interactions Using Java Chapter 5: Composition Chapter 6: Policy Chapter 7: Wires Chapter 8: Bindings Chapter 9: The Domain Chapter 10: Service-Based Development Using BPEL Chapter 11: Persistence Chapter 12: The Presentation Tier

Jim Marino, Ph.D., is Principal at Metaform Systems, where he provides strategic planning, architecture assistance, and training to clients worldwide. Jim is also one of the architects of the Fabric3 SCA runtime. Prior to joining Metaform Systems, Jim was Director of Technology at BEA Systems, where he was involved with the development of Service Component Architecture from its inception.

 

Michael Rowley, Ph.D., is the CTO of Active Endpoints, Inc. He has been involved in the development of SCA from early in its development and has contributed to 12 of the 15 SCA specifications that were published as part of the Open Service- Oriented Architecture (OSOA) collaboration. He was also an original member of the Open Component Service Architecture (OpenCSA) steering committee, which is the OASIS steering committee that oversees the work of the various SCA technical committees. Before joining Active Endpoints, he was a Director of Technology at BEA Systems where, in addition to working on SCA, he also helped develop the BPELJ extension to BPEL and was involved in the early development of BEA’s event processing and service bus products. Michael received his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in 1994.