Interesting movement from Mule. Paul
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil Ellis (MuleSource) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 3, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: [mule-dev] MuleSCA To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi folks Ross has asked me to kick off the discussions regarding Mule supporting the Service Component Architecture specification. The following is a good resource on SCA: http://www.osoa.org/display/Main/Home And of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_component_architecture SCA as a specification has a lot of backing; most, or all, of our competitors are part of the specification group, including: IBM, BEA, IONA, TIBCO, Software AG, Progress, Red Hat/jBoss, Sun, Interface21, Oracle, SAP, Sybase SCA has been quite well accepted as a specification and, thanks largely to the number of vendors involved in the specification, is likely to see many implementations in the near future. SCA compliant products in varying degrees of development include: Apache Tuscany - http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/ Fabric 3 - http://fabric3.codehaus.org/ Infiniflow/Newton - http://www.paremus.com/opensource/opensource_newton.html Oracle Fusion - http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html BEA are currently positioning themselves to take on an open-source product as their SCA offering. IBM were the main contributors to Tuscany so this will be the basis of their offering. The aim of the MuleSCA project is to evaluate strategies for Mule becoming SCA compliant. We will be talking to SCA vendors and evaluating what changes will be needed to achieve compliancy. SCA has some concepts which Mule does not yet have, as a result of this we will also be needing to work closely with those involved in core development to look at how these features can be introduced in a holistic manner. Such features include conversations (cross invocation correlation) and service composites. Some of these features actually form natural improvements to Mule. We have a MuleForge project here http://www.mulesource.org/display/SCA/Home and actively encourage all Mule developers to take part in the dev list. Kind regards Neil Ellis EMEASolutions Architect MuleSource, Inc. www.mulesource.com Office: +44(0)1273 906 069 Mobile: +44(0)7983 553 957 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: neilellis iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com
