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December 02, 2005 | Comments: (0)

BEA official: New SOA spec won't go to JCP

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Sun Microsystems might not like it. But the newly announced Service Component Architecture specification put forth this week by a number of major vendors is not likely to make its way through the Java Community Process (JCP), for amending the Java programming language. The specification is intended to boost development of SOA.

Sun was not a party to this week's announcement because the company prefers the JCP, said Tom Goguen, Sun vice president of software marketing. "We strongly believe in the JCP process and that's how we should be driving standards really for all of the Java community as opposed to a subset of the community," Goguen said.

But Bill Roth, vice president of BEA Systems's BEA Workship Business Unit, said SCA will not be submitted to the JCP because it encompasses more than just the Java community. BEA has participated in development of SCA.

"We will not submit it to the JCP. That's not under consideration," Roth said.

For its part, Sun has expressed intentions to work with the SCA initiative.

In other matters, Roth also said BEA in the first quarter of next year plans to release its BEA Workshop 3.0 developer platform, featuring support for the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3 specification. EJB 3 focuses on building complex applications that talk to databases, Roth said.

Posted by Paul Krill on December 2, 2005 04:52 PM

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