Here, the SOA components that we will discuss are just to give you an idea about the meta-technical architecture level concepts. These are not the de-facto standards, but they provide a strong basis to build your organization's SOA architecture. Therefore, we take a summarized look at one of the most common industry standard architecture.
SOA features and components
Service Component Architecture
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is one of the most popular standards, dating from 2005. It defines the architectural components of an SOA platform in a technical manner. It is standardized by the OASIS, mainly in collaboration with IBM, Oracle, and TIBCO.
It provides a model to compose applications that follow the SOA principles:
In a nutshell, SCA has the following...