Tuscany SCA in Action

Preface

What brought the five of us together to write a book on Apache Tuscany and Service Component Architecture (SCA)? We all had practical experience of how difficult and costly integration of applications and technologies can be, and we were excited about how Tuscany and SCA can help solve these problems. Having been involved with Tuscany and the SCA specifications from the early days, we understood the potential of this new technology and wanted to share it with you.

Although we’d been entertaining the idea of writing a book for a while, the event that made it possible was the completion of the SCA 1.0 implementation in Tuscany. With that we had a real implementation of a service-oriented infrastructure that we could use to explain SCA ...