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Technical Information

These papers cover various aspects of the SDO specifications:

Paper	Date Published
What's new in SDO V2.0?	July 2005
What's new in SDO V2.1?	November 2006
PHP and SDO White Paper	October 2006
SDO V2.1 White Paper	March 2007
SCA and SDO Introduction and Overview	March 2007

Relationship of SDO to other Technologies

These papers discuss the relationship of SDO to other technologies: 

Relevant Books

We expect both the SDO and SCA technologies to be important enough to attract the interest of technical authors to feature in books covering SOA Architectures and Business Solutions. Any known books will be featured here.

Book	Author	Publication
SOA for the Business Developer- Concepts, BPEL, and SCA	Ben Margolis with Joseph L. Sharpe	May 15 2007 New

Some vendor-specific information

As the SCA and SDO technologies are relatively new, some Collaboration partners and supporters have produced some useful educational and positioning material. They are referenced in this section in order to assist increase awareness of SCA and SDO. They are not product marketing materials!

Paper	Date Published
CodeFutures Software: Comparing SDO with the Data Access Object (DAO) pattern	March 2006
CodeFutures Software: Comparing SDO with EJB 3.0 Data Persistence	March 2006
BEA: Broadcast of an SDO Introduction talk by Michael Rowley, hosted on JavaPolis	December 2005
IBM: SDO 2.0: Creata and read an XML document based on XML Schema	April 2006
IBM: Streamline working with XML in PHP using Service Data Objects	May 2006
IBM: An introduction to Service Data Objects for C++	March 2006
IBM: How to use dynamic data APIs for Service Data Objects 2.1 in a Web service	April 2007

Presentations

These are presentations which cover aspects of the SCA specifications, in PDF and Powerpoint formats: 

Paper	PDF download	PPT download	Date Published
General SDO Introduction	Click here	Click here	August 5 2006