Synopses & Reviews
Use SCA to Simplify the Development and Delivery of Service-Based Applications
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a new programming model that enables developers to build distributed applications more efficiently and effectively than previous technologies. In Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture), two leading experts offer the first complete and independent guide to SCA. Drawing on extensive experience both developing the SCA standards and implementing large-scale SCA applications, Jim Marino and Michael Rowley provide an insider's perspective for developers and technical managers tasked with architecting and implementing enterprise systems. Rather than simply providing a technology overview, the authors draw on their practical experiences with SCA, explaining
- The full history behind SCA
- How SCA fits with other enterprise technologies such as JEE, .NET, Web Services, and BPEL
- All the major SCA concepts including composition, policy, wires, and bindings
- Best practices for designing SCA applications
- Using SCA with Web Services, Message-Oriented Middleware, BPEL, JPA, and Servlets
Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture) provides the background necessary to make informed decisions about when and how to best use SCA to build enterprise applications.
Review
Praise for Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture)
“Jim Marino and Michael Rowley have been involved with SCA from the start and know it as well as anyone. They have great hands-on experience with the Fabric3 open source SCA project. This book also tackles the subject and its broad issues head on, and in addition to the clear and concise technical descriptions of SCA, they provide excellent sidebar perspectives on Java, Java EE, Web services, and SCA’s relationship to them all.”
–Eric Newcomer, Progress Software, Coauthor of Understanding SOA with Web Services, and Author of Understanding Web Services
“It was really worthwhile reading this book. It not only introduces a powerful technology, but also provides comprehensive coverage of supporting technologies. The authors have paid plenty of attention to practical issues including performance and thoroughly understand the ways that SCA can leverage state-of-the-art technologies such as JPA.”
–Tim Holloway, Forum Moderator, The JavaRanch
“SCA is a nice, conceptually and technically sound advanced component framework. This book enables easy access to this exciting technology for software developers.”
–Dr. Steffen Becker
“Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture) delivers the details for how to effectively use SCA leveraging open source tools such as Fabric3.”
–Dave Hendricksen, Software Architect
About the Author
Jim Marino is a Principal at Metform Systems Ltd. Jim has been involved with SCA since its inception and is one of the leads for the open source Fabric3 SCA runtime. Prior to Metform Systems, Jim was Director of Technology at BEA Systems, where he and Michael Rowley lead the development of SCA. Jim holds an M.Phil from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Michael Rowley, Ph.D., is the Director of Technology and Strategy at Active Endpoints, Inc. He has been involved in the development of SCA from very early in its development and has contributed to 12 of the 15 SCA specifications that were published as part of the Open Service Oriented Architecture (OSOA) collaboration. He was also an original member of the Open Component Service Architecture (OpenCSA) steering committee, which is the OASIS steering committee that oversees the work of the various SCA technical committees. Before joining Active Endpoints, he was a Director of Technology at BEA Systems where, in addition to working on SCA, he also helped to develop the BPELJ extension to BPEL and was involved in the early development of BEA's event processing and service bus products. Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1994.
Table of Contents
Preface xix
Chapter 1: Introducing SCA 1
Chapter 2: Assembling and Deploying a Composite 41
Chapter 3: Service-Based Development Using Java 69
Chapter 4: Conversational Interactions Using Java 109
Chapter 5: Composition 131
Chapter 6: Policy 167
Chapter 7: Wires 189
Chapter 8: Bindings 203
Chapter 9: The Domain 231
Chapter 10: Service-Based Development Using BPEL 267
Chapter 11: Persistence 285
Chapter 12: The Presentation Tier 311
Index 325