This Oracle white paper introduces the Service Component Architecture standard (SCA) and its capabilities featured in Oracle SOA Suite 11g, which are aimed at reducing the complexity of developing, deploying, and managing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications.

SCA is part of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards. SCA is defined as a set of specifications which describe a model for building applications and systems using a SOA. SCA extends and complements prior approaches to implementing services, and SCA builds on open standards such as Web services.

SCA is based on the idea that business function is provided as a series of services, which are assembled together to create solutions that serve a particular business need. These composite applications can contain both new services created specifically for the application and also business function from existing systems and applications, reused as part of the composition. SCA provides a model both for the composition of services and for the creation of service components, including the reuse of existing application function within SCA compositions.

The 20-page white paper authored by Oracle Enterprise Architect Pat Shepard describes SCA terminology and concepts and delves into how the SOA suite 11g leverages the standard. Specifically covered are the three major parts of Oracle SCA, how to deploy and manage SCA composites, and best practices as well as links for more information.

More Information

Oracle SCA - The Power of the Composite

SCA Specification on OASIS

Oracle SOA Suite

Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 - paperback [...read more...]

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