| APACHE TUSCANY ENABLES SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOLUTIONS TO MORE |
| EASILY RESPOND TO NEW BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS |
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| New Service Component Architecture for Java Lowers Development Costs with |
| Improved Agility and Flexibility |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| "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." |
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| "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). |
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| Service Component Architecture (SCA) Support Across Protocols and |
| Technologies |
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| 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. |
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| "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)." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| "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." |
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| 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. |
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| "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." |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/. |
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