Dana Gardner on SCA/SDO and OASIS
Dana Gardner is the first industry analyst to comment on the announcement that SCA and SDO are being submitted to OASIS. The title of the article, "SCA/SDO goes to OASIS, could be to SOA what Java EE was to n-tier computing" pretty well summarizes Gardner's analysis of the important of SDO/SCA and the move to make them a formal industry standard.
Garner makes an important point about SCA/SDO that explains why they are not Java-only and part of the JCP.
SCA/SDO are designed to provide a common way to alleviate the complexity of adopting SOA across heterogeneity of services types and origins
Gardner also provides a rather sweeping conclusion:
This move shows an aggressive path for major vendors to making SOA the basis for modern computing, and for seeking a powerful standards and compliance force in the market to promote heterogeneity in the production, use, compositing, and extension of applications and data services. This may well form a turning point in the embrace and use of SOA as enterprises recognize the large investment the majority of large IT vendors are making, as well as the steps they are taking to foster open standards for extended levels of interoperability and common programmability of services.
So is this the J2EE moment for SOA Web Services? The answer is yes if important vendors at the top end of the market like IBM, SAP, Rogue Wave, and Oracle have their way.
PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software