Leveraging SCA to Implement a Next-Generation SOA

With 17 sponsoring vendors, Service Component Architecture (SCA) represents an important industry initiative to produce next-generation service infrastructure. This talk will provide an overview of SCA, focusing on how SCA will impact technology strategy over the next two years. In addition to discussing the evolution of SCA as an industry collaboration effort, the talk will cover the key elements of SCA, including assembly and composition, service authoring, and policy. Particular emphasis will be placed on how SCA can be used to evolve existing middleware investments to take advantage of SOA.

Michael Rowley BIO

Michael Rowley works in the office of the CTO at BEA, where he is involved in initiatives related to SOA-based programming models and business process management. Recently he has been one of the primary authors of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specifications. He is currently the chair of SCA's Java working group and one of the editors of the SCA Assembly and SCA BPEL specifications.

In the past, he has been in JCP expert groups for Process Definitions for Java (207), JBI (208), and the original JDO expert group (12). He received a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994 with research related to OO database systems.

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