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 APACHE TUSCANY ENABLES SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOLUTIONS TO MORE
 EASILY RESPOND TO NEW BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

 New Service Component Architecture for Java Lowers Development Costs with
 Improved Agility and Flexibility

 FOREST HILL MD – 14 October 2008 – Apache Tuscany, a new Top-Level Project
 of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the release of
 version 1.3.2 of its Service Component Architecture (SCA) for Java – the
 Project's latest release since its graduation from the ASF Incubator four
 months ago.

 Apache Tuscany provides a robust, highly extensible infrastructure for
 building, deploying, running and managing Service Oriented Architecture
 (SOA) solutions, streamlining the development process of service-based
 application networks and addressing real business problems posed in SOA.
 Service Oriented Architecture solutions utilize new and existing services to
 create brand new applications that may consist of different technologies.

 "Over the past two years, the Tuscany community has focused on developing
 fully open, standards-based, large-scale SOA solutions," said Anthony Elder,
 ASF Vice President and Chair of the Apache Tuscany Project Management
 Committee. "We continue to receive enthusiastic support for Tuscany's
 simple, highly extensible Service Component Architecture (SCA), Service Data
 Objects (SDO), and Data Access Service (DAS) subprojects. Becoming an ASF
 Top-Level Project and great ideas for future development – including
 improvements in application server integration, distributed runtimes and Web
 2.0 support – underscore how Tuscany continues to go from strength to
 strength."

 "We are very pleased that Tuscany has graduated to a top-level Apache
 project. Tuscany offers a great open source implementation of the SCA
 specifications and it demonstrates the value of the Service Component
 Architecture specifications in making it easier to build applications which
 integrate functionality using an SOA approach to services," said OASIS
 Technical Committee Co-chairs Dave Booz (SCA Policy and SCA-J), and Mike
 Edwards (SCA Assembly).

 Service Component Architecture (SCA) Support Across Protocols and
 Technologies

 Service Component Architecture defines a simple, service-based model for the
 construction, assembly and deployment of a network of services (both
 existing and new ones) that are defined in a language-neutral way. SCA can
 be used with a wide variety of existing middleware technologies, enabling
 existing assets to be leveraged.

 "IBM Software Group is using the Apache Tuscany project to deliver a Java
 implementation of SCA 1.0 to its WebSphere Application Server customers,"
 said Erik P. Kristiansen, Websphere Product Manager of IBM Software Group.
 "Delivered as an optional product extension, the WebSphere Application
 Server version 7 Feature Pack for SCA is currently available in Beta (at
 http://www.ibm.com/websphere/was/sca)."

 The Apache Tuscany SCA programming model provides a level of abstraction
 that separates the concerns of developing business solutions from
 infrastructure and technology details. This lowers development costs, making
 it easier to evolve SOA solutions in response to new business requirements.

 Apache Tuscany supports many different binding protocols and programming
 technologies and works with a variety of container models. Its modular
 architecture makes it easy to integrate with other technologies and runs on
 Apache's Tomcat, and Geronimo projects, as well as other application
 servers.

 "Using Tuscany helps our leading banking customers to fulfill the SOA
 architecture and business component specification," said Chris Cheng, Vice
 President of Primeton Technologies Ltd. "Primeton has done a consulting
 service for one of China's leading financial services company, to help them
 to fulfill the SOA architecture, business component specifications and the
 container implementation. Now the enterprise architecture, business
 component specifications and container implementation have been approved to
 be used in all the Enterprise-wide applications in the future."

 In addition, Apache Tuscany implements the SCA Version 1.0 specifications as
 defined by the Open Service Oriented Architecture Collaboration. Apache
 Tuscany also supports the specifications being standardized by OASIS Open
 CSA and provides additional support for OSGI, scripting languages, and
 Web2.0 related technologies such as RSS and DWR.

 "The work of the Tuscany project has made valuable contributions to the
 evolution of the SCA specifications, through surfacing specification bugs
 and requesting clarifications in a number of areas. Tuscany's achievements
 give us confidence that SCA is of wide applicability and can be implemented
 by a range of runtimes," added Booz and Edwards. "As well as implementations
 of the current SCA specifications, it is interesting to see the community
 that has developed around Tuscany pioneering a series of component
 implementation and binding extensions to SCA, particularly in the area of
 Web 2.0 capabilities, such as HTTP and REST bindings - including ATOMPub and
 JSON wire data formats - and the innovative implementation.widget type."

 Those interested in learning more about Apache Tuscany and SCA are invited
 to attend ApacheCon US, the official conference of the Apache Software
 Foundation, taking place 3-7 November 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 Register online at http://www.us.apachecon.com/

 To download Apache Tuscany SCA v1.3.2, access mailing list archives and
 documentation, or to get involved with the Project, visit
 http://tuscany.apache.org/.

 ABOUT THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
 Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
 legal, and financial support for a broad range of Open Source software
 projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server
 software for more than a decade. The Foundation provides an established
 framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that
 simultaneously limits contributors' potential legal exposure. Through a
 collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver
 enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large
 communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all
 users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products. For more
 information, please see http://www.apache.org/
	APACHE TUSCANY ENABLES SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOLUTIONS TO MORE
	EASILY RESPOND TO NEW BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

	New Service Component Architecture for Java Lowers Development Costs with
	Improved Agility and Flexibility

	FOREST HILL MD – 14 October 2008 – Apache Tuscany, a new Top-Level Project
	of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the release of
	version 1.3.2 of its Service Component Architecture (SCA) for Java – the
	Project's latest release since its graduation from the ASF Incubator four
	months ago.

	Apache Tuscany provides a robust, highly extensible infrastructure for
	building, deploying, running and managing Service Oriented Architecture
	(SOA) solutions, streamlining the development process of service-based
	application networks and addressing real business problems posed in SOA.
	Service Oriented Architecture solutions utilize new and existing services to
	create brand new applications that may consist of different technologies.

	"Over the past two years, the Tuscany community has focused on developing
	fully open, standards-based, large-scale SOA solutions," said Anthony Elder,
	ASF Vice President and Chair of the Apache Tuscany Project Management
	Committee. "We continue to receive enthusiastic support for Tuscany's
	simple, highly extensible Service Component Architecture (SCA), Service Data
	Objects (SDO), and Data Access Service (DAS) subprojects. Becoming an ASF
	Top-Level Project and great ideas for future development – including
	improvements in application server integration, distributed runtimes and Web
	2.0 support – underscore how Tuscany continues to go from strength to
	strength."

	"We are very pleased that Tuscany has graduated to a top-level Apache
	project. Tuscany offers a great open source implementation of the SCA
	specifications and it demonstrates the value of the Service Component
	Architecture specifications in making it easier to build applications which
	integrate functionality using an SOA approach to services," said OASIS
	Technical Committee Co-chairs Dave Booz (SCA Policy and SCA-J), and Mike
	Edwards (SCA Assembly).

	Service Component Architecture (SCA) Support Across Protocols and
	Technologies

	Service Component Architecture defines a simple, service-based model for the
	construction, assembly and deployment of a network of services (both
	existing and new ones) that are defined in a language-neutral way. SCA can
	be used with a wide variety of existing middleware technologies, enabling
	existing assets to be leveraged.

	"IBM Software Group is using the Apache Tuscany project to deliver a Java
	implementation of SCA 1.0 to its WebSphere Application Server customers,"
	said Erik P. Kristiansen, Websphere Product Manager of IBM Software Group.
	"Delivered as an optional product extension, the WebSphere Application
	Server version 7 Feature Pack for SCA is currently available in Beta (at
	http://www.ibm.com/websphere/was/sca)."

	The Apache Tuscany SCA programming model provides a level of abstraction
	that separates the concerns of developing business solutions from
	infrastructure and technology details. This lowers development costs, making
	it easier to evolve SOA solutions in response to new business requirements.

	Apache Tuscany supports many different binding protocols and programming
	technologies and works with a variety of container models. Its modular
	architecture makes it easy to integrate with other technologies and runs on
	Apache's Tomcat, and Geronimo projects, as well as other application
	servers.

	"Using Tuscany helps our leading banking customers to fulfill the SOA
	architecture and business component specification," said Chris Cheng, Vice
	President of Primeton Technologies Ltd. "Primeton has done a consulting
	service for one of China's leading financial services company, to help them
	to fulfill the SOA architecture, business component specifications and the
	container implementation. Now the enterprise architecture, business
	component specifications and container implementation have been approved to
	be used in all the Enterprise-wide applications in the future."

	In addition, Apache Tuscany implements the SCA Version 1.0 specifications as
	defined by the Open Service Oriented Architecture Collaboration. Apache
	Tuscany also supports the specifications being standardized by OASIS Open
	CSA and provides additional support for OSGI, scripting languages, and
	Web2.0 related technologies such as RSS and DWR.

	"The work of the Tuscany project has made valuable contributions to the
	evolution of the SCA specifications, through surfacing specification bugs
	and requesting clarifications in a number of areas. Tuscany's achievements
	give us confidence that SCA is of wide applicability and can be implemented
	by a range of runtimes," added Booz and Edwards. "As well as implementations
	of the current SCA specifications, it is interesting to see the community
	that has developed around Tuscany pioneering a series of component
	implementation and binding extensions to SCA, particularly in the area of
	Web 2.0 capabilities, such as HTTP and REST bindings - including ATOMPub and
	JSON wire data formats - and the innovative implementation.widget type."

	Those interested in learning more about Apache Tuscany and SCA are invited
	to attend ApacheCon US, the official conference of the Apache Software
	Foundation, taking place 3-7 November 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
	Register online at http://www.us.apachecon.com/

	To download Apache Tuscany SCA v1.3.2, access mailing list archives and
	documentation, or to get involved with the Project, visit
	http://tuscany.apache.org/.

	ABOUT THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION
	Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
	legal, and financial support for a broad range of Open Source software
	projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server
	software for more than a decade. The Foundation provides an established
	framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that
	simultaneously limits contributors' potential legal exposure. Through a
	collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver
	enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large
	communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all
	users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products. For more
	information, please see http://www.apache.org/