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SCA

The SCA specifications 1collectively define many terms that are used throughout the Tuscany SCA implementation, for example, SCADomain, Composite, Component, Service, Reference. Tuscany itself uses a few terms that are worth explaining.

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Component Instance
Component Instance

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Component Instance

The running component that services requests. A single component definition in a SCDL file may give rise to one or more component instances depending on how the component is scoped (using the @Scope annotation).

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Distributed Domain

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Distributed Domain

An SCA Domain that is "distributed over a series of interconnected runtime nodes".

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Domain Node

The part of a Distributed Domain that represent the components that will run on a Node.

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Node

Provides an environment inside which SCA component instances execute. It's an operating system process, separate from other Nodes. Its form may be as simple as a single Java VM or it may take the more scalable and reliable form, such as a compute cluster.

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A node must be able to expose the service endpoints required by the components it runs. It must be able to support the client technology for the references of associated components.

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Node Runtime?

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Node Runtime?

The Tuscany framework that runs Component Instances for components in a Node Domain

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Runtime

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A runtime groups together one or more (distributed) nodes. It describes the compute resources that will run the components of an SCA Domain.

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SDO

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DAS

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Config File

XML file that is used to set up a DAS instance. It defines how DAS will treat the data when converting it from the data source to the SDO Data Graph or vice-versa.

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