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June 05, 2007

Will Component standardization be a catalyst for SOA?

In the recent past, vendors have concentrated efforts on standardization of the underlying component models which form the core of the "implementation" aspect of "services" in SOA. It started with multiple vendor groups proposing standards outside any standards body, but recent efforts at standardization may bear fruit at bringing them to mainstream. SCA, and SDO are the predominant componentization standards which are now in the standardization process..

The recent formation of a advanced group in OASIS to take the work done on SCA and SDO by Open SOA consortium is a welcome step in this direction. See http://xml.coverpages.org/SCA-SDO-OASIS.html for details and http://www.oasis-open.org/news/opencsa-press-release.pdf

 

Both SCA and SDO are aimed at improving the implementation possibilities for building services from components and data sources respectively. Existing standards around WS* address the problem of standardizing the enterprise ecosystem once the service interfaces are defined, but do not address the core issue of building of services, i.e. what lies beneath the services interfaces, or how to standardize the building of services from existing components and systems. We hope the efforts at standardization of SCA and SDO will usher in enhanced adoption of pragmatic SOA with standardization right from components right through to higher layers of enterprise SOA.  

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