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• The SDO V2.1 for C++ Specification is now in its final review cycle with an intent of publication as a Final Specification before Christmas. The Collaboration would be interested in any late feedback from the industry.
• Service Data Objects Specifications

• TIBCO Software Inc. today announced the availability of a distributed service container – TIBCO ActiveMatrix(TM) Service Grid – for creating and deploying services in a heterogeneous environment. This offering represents one in a family of service-oriented architecture (SOA) products designed specifically to help reduce SOA complexity and simplify the deployment of new business services through service virtualization and governance........ TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid, based on the Java Specification Request (JSR) 208 and Service Component Architecture (SCA) specifications, also allows organizations to add their own service run-time environments........
• Yahoo News, December 4th, 2006
• Rourke Mcnamara Weblog
• GRIDtoday

• Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX) providing reusable software components and services that facilitate enterprise-class application development, today announced the general availability of HydraSDO™ for XML 1.1, an update to HydraSDO for XML, and an early access version of HydraSDO™ for Databases. These new components will allow developers to increase the efficiency of data access in Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments by significantly reducing memory requirements and increasing performance.
• Press Release, December 6th, 2006

• TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid, based on the Java Specification Request (JSR) 208 and Service Component Architecture (SCA) specifications, allows organizations to add their own service run-time environments. The product enables SOA-specific functionality such as policy management, service deployment, and service management to be configured at runtime by administrators.
• Press Release, December 4th,

• The Java community is working on the 'Service Data Objects' specification (JSR 235) to create a better framework for handling entities in service-oriented architectures. The goals of SDO are to help simplify and unify data access across different data source types. Data transport is one aspect of SDO. Another aspect is the change tracking mechanism, which is closely related to data transport: unchanged values of the original tree are omitted when serializing the data graph.....
• CRM InfoWorker Solutions, Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi Blog, December 7th, 2006

• A sponsored podcast discussion with Dana Gardner about the intersection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and open source software.
• Transcript of Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect Podcast on Open Source SOA

The 2006 International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) took place in Chicago on December 4-7.  Many excellent papers were presented on a wide variety of topics relating to Service-Oriented Computing, including Service Component Architecture.

You can find out more about ICSOC at the following site: http://www.icsoc.org

The SCA presentations are also available on this site on the Resources page. 

• Matthew Peters talks about how in this issue he will survey some of what Service Component Architecture (SCA) for PHP offers the programmer. We have high hopes that the combination of reusable components, which can be called either locally, or remotely via Web Services, with the same interface will be of interest, and that anyone who works with Web Services may be interested in the ease with which an SCA component can be deployed as a Web Service: a simple matter of adding annotations and dropping the component under the web server's document root.
• December 2006 Hardcopy Issue

• Last month an alliance of leading vendors announced progress on specifications to define a language-neutral programming model for application development in SOA environments. They call this specification Open SOA Collaboration. In essence, they are proposing a new standard to create and manage IT, making the process of integrating different third-party SOA technologies "less onerous," they say. Or, we can call this a standard way of delivering services, making it easier to work and play well together.......
• SOA Web Services Journal, Dec 15th 2006

• The Industry Partners working on the SDO project are pleased to announce the Publication of the Final Specification for SDO V2.1 for C++.
• Service Data Objects Specifications
• What's New in SDO 2.1?