Oasis, the international standards consortium, is aiming
to ease the development of applications based on a
Service Orientated Architecture
(SOA).
Oasis has formed the Open Composite Services
Architecture (Open CSA) member section, a new initiative to advance
standards that simplify Service Oriented Architecture application
development.
Open CSA will promote the further development and
adoption of the organisation’s
Service Component Architecture (SCA) and
Service Data Objects (SDO) families of
specifications, which will be provided to the community royalty
free.
SCA helps organisations more easily design and transform IT
assets into reusable services that can be rapidly assembled to meet
changing business requirements. SDO lets application programmers
uniformly access and manipulate data from heterogeneous sources,
including relational databases, XML data sources, web services, and
enterprise information systems.
Both SCA and SDO were created by the
Open SOA Collaboration, an informal group of 18
software providers. It selected Oasis as the most effective venue
for advancing SCA and SDO through the open standardisation
process.
"Oasis appreciates the work of the Open SOA Collaboration to see
these specifications through their incubation stage and then
contribute them into the open standards process," said OASIS CEO
Patrick Gannon.
"Advancing this work within Oasis will enable the SCA and SDO
specifications to receive input from a broader international
community of software developers, systems integrators, and
users.”
He said, “The Open CSA Member Section will be able to
co-ordinate the standardisation of multiple specifications, provide
education, and promote implementation in order to achieve the most
extensive industry adoption of this work."
The Open CSA Member Section will oversee several new Oasis
Technical Committees for the SCA and SDO families of
specifications.
Members of the Open CSA Member Section include Active Endpoints,
Avaya, BEA Systems, Hitachi, IBM, Oracle, Primeton, Progress
Software, Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, SAP, SOA Software, Sun
Microsystems, TIBCO, Xcalia, and others.
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