Open Source SOA

Chapter 4. Advanced SCA

In the previous chapter, we covered many of the basics for getting up and running with SCA using Apache Tuscany. This included how to create compositions, components, and services. These are important ingredients for building a foundation for your SOA environment, as they directly address the S in SOA, which is about creating reusable and discrete services. However, a lot of additional considerations exist that go beyond what we've demonstrated, particularly within an enterprise setting. They include such SCA capabilities as conversational services, complex deployment scenarios, multilanguage support, and Service Data Objects (SDOs). Without such features, the appeal of SCA would be limited, and its attendant contribution ...