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Many articles have been written about SOA and Service Component Architecture already1. 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, this 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 project is called the Apache Tuscany. The project started in 2006 and is being used by many who are looking for a simple SOA infrastructure. Apache Tuscany release SCA vesion 1.0 which was announced released in September 2007 supports Service Component Architecture specification 1.0, but an interesting aspect of Tuscany is that in . In addition to implementing the SCA specification, Tuscany is also an implementation a 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 , and distribution and management are currently extensions beyond the specification.

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The sample code and configuration used in this article can be found in the Tuscany Java SCA samples directory 1.5 2 and is available under the Apache License 1.6.

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