Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture)

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

Jim Marino, Ph.D., is Principal at Metaform Systems, where he provides strategic planning, architecture assistance, and training to clients worldwide. Jim is also one of the architects of the Fabric3 SCA runtime. Prior to joining Metaform Systems, Jim was Director of Technology at BEA Systems, where he was involved with the development of Service Component Architecture from its inception. Michael Rowley, Ph.D., is the CTO of Active Endpoints, Inc. He has been involved in the development of SCA from 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 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.

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