BEA Service Component Architecture

Service Component Architecture - New technology simplifies application development and implementation in an SOA

Service component architecture (SCA) is a new technology specification from BEA, IBM, Interface21, IONA, Oracle, SAP, Siebel, and Sybase. SCA simplifies application development and implementation in an SOA service oriented architecture, to help you create new IT assets and transform existing ones into reusable services that can be rapidly adapted to changing business requirements. SCA may greatly reduce the complexity associated with developing applications by providing a way to unify services regardless of the programming languages they were written in and the platforms they run on.

As a model for implementing IT services defined as business functions, SCA helps shield programmers from most of the complexity of traditional middleware programming. SCA also helps you model the assembly of business solutions from individual services, providing control over key aspects of the solution such as access methods and security.