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Introduction - Haleh

There are has been many articles on Many articles have been written about SOA and Service Component Architecture already. We are not about to repeat the same story here. You can refer to any of the references below 1 to learn more about Service Component Architecture or simply search the web. Instead, let's focus this article focuses on a real, available, open source implementation for Service Component Architecture that provides a simple way to implement SOA solutions. This free open source solution project is called the Apache Tuscany. It has been around for a while and is getting real use by many adoptersThe project started in 2006 and is being used by many who are looking for a simple SOA infrastructure. Apache Tuscany release 1.0 which was announced in September 2007 supports Service Component Architecture specification 1.0, but the an interesting aspect of Tuscany is that in addition to implementing the spec implementationSCA specification, it Tuscany is also an implementation nursery for new ideas that are not part of the specification yet. Some of these ideas will find their way to the specifications and some will be regarded as extensions avaialable in Apache Tuscany. For example, support for Ruby, JavaScript, Xquery, web 2.0, distribution and management are currently extensions beyond the specification.

This article will walk you through what is available in Apache Tuscany, and therefore it highlights SCA benefits, with real use case scenarios.

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