Service Component Architecture

Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a software technology designed to provide a model for composing applications that follow service-oriented architecture principles. The technology, created by major software vendors, including IBM, Oracle Corporation and TIBCO Software, encompasses a wide range of technologies and as such is specified in independent specifications to maintain programming language and application environment neutrality. Many times it uses an enterprise service bus (ESB).

The original partners announced on November 30, 2005 were: BEA Systems, IBM, IONA Technologies, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Sybase, Xcalia and Zend Technologies. Additional members announced on July 26, 2006 were Cape Clear, Interface21, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software, Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, Software AG, Sun Microsystems and TIBCO Software.Siemens AG joined the collaboration of companies working on the technology on September 18, 2006.

In addition to the partners, the SCA community had some formal supporters.

On March 21, 2007, the OSOA Collaboration released the first version of specification. The specifications said that an application designed with SCA should have:

SCA, therefore, was promoted to offer flexibility for composite applications, flexibly incorporating reusable components in an SOA programming style.

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