To everybody out there interested in seeing SCA being more widely adopted. Recently I posted a general overview of SCA coverage at JavaWorld last week in San Francisco. Which can be found at http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/2008/05/highlights-of-sca-at-javaworld-2008.html
I spoke briefly about the SCA panel that was attended by members of IBM, Sun SAP and MCd by David Chapelle. After the panel, I had the chance to briefly speak with Peter Walker of Sun Microsystems concerning Sun support for SCA. In his opinion, Sun will probably not support SCA, because in his mind there is no user demand. Peter has actually invited me to tell him more about "what users want" directly on my above-mentioned blog entry. I personally think that having Sun support SCA in a more active fashion, and incorporating it into the JavaEE world would do a lot to reduce the noise around "fractures within the Java community" (especially from Microsoft) and would be excellent for the Java platform in general. Is anybody else concerned with Sun's lack of support? Please provide your comments at http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/2008/05/highlights-of-sca-at-javaworld-2008.html I will make sure to forward your comments over to Peter. Feel free to share any evidence of the real world adoption of SCA and the value that it has provided. Be generic when referring to specific clients or projects if you need to protect the innocent :-). It would be great if we can provide hard evidence to convince Sun that SCA is real, valuable, and worth considering. Of course, I will also share the results of this with the community. -- Jeff Anderson http://agileconsulting.blogspot.com/
