[Announce] Apache Incubator Tuscany SCA Java 1.0-incubator-M2 release

[Simon Nash <na...@hursley.ibm.com>]

The Apache Incubator Tuscany team is pleased to announce the availability
of the SCA Java 1.0-incubator-M2 release, together with a restructured
Web site with enhanced content and better organization.  Information about
Tuscany, including details of the release contents and download links can
be found at:
   http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany

The aim of the Apache Tuscany project is to create, as a community, a robust
infrastructure that simplifies the development of SOA-based systems.  This
M2 release contains a number of enhancements over the previous M1 release.
The major features are as follows:

* SCA specification compliance. Assembly (V0.96), Java Client and Implementation (V0.95):
     Recursive composite model (implementation.composite and include)
     Support for component properties (simple types only)
     Asynchronous oneway and request with callback
     Java interface and WSDL 1.1 portType
* Improved core for flexibility and extensibility
     Refactored to provide the default implementation of the SPI contracts
     Packaging/deployment
     Scope management
     IoC
     Autowire
     Improved classloader isolation
     Maven-based artifact repository
     A Data Binding Framework
* Improved Extension model and SPI
* Tuscany Standalone runtime launcher
* Tomcat integration to host Tuscany web applications
* Tuscany War Plugin to build web applications
* New and improved bindings:
     Axis2, upgraded to version 1.1
     RMI
* Component Implementation:
     JavaScript
     Ruby
     Spring
* Data Bindings:
     AXIOM
     SDO
* Additional samples
     RMI Service and RMI Reference from a standalone Tuscany runtime
     A combo sample (Calculator-Combo) that demonstrates
       - assembly of different technologies using component implementations in Java, JavaScript, and Ruby
       - binding of service references to Web service and RMI Service endpoints
       - a simple demonstration of property configuration and composite component implementation
     Asynchronous invocation

This release is available for download from
   http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/sca_downloads.html

If you have questions, feedback, or would like to get involved in the
Tuscany project, please join the mailing lists (tuscany-dev@ws.apache.org
or tuscany-user@ws.apache.org) and let us know your thoughts.

The Apache Incubator Tuscany Team


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