[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0 M1 Released

[Luciano Resende <lr...@apache.org>]

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 2.0 M1 release of
the Java SCA project.

Apache Tuscany provides a runtime based on the Service Component
Architecture (SCA) which is a set of specifications aimed at
simplifying SOA Application Development. The SCA specifications are
being standardized at OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services
Architecture (Open CSA) - http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/.

The Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0-M1 release is the first milestone on the
road to a full Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0 release. The goal of Apache
Tuscany SCA 2.0 is to provide an OSGi based SCA runtime that is
compliant with the OASIS SCA specifications.

With this first milestone release, a solid OSGi foundation is in place
to support the development, build, testing and deployment of Tuscany
modules and extensions following OSGi best practices. The first steps
have also been taken to incorporate the latest OASIS SCA draft
specifications.

In subsequent milestone releases the compliance gap with the OASIS
specifications will continue to be narrowed and, now that the OSGi
infrastructure in place, OSGi/SCA integration at the application level
will be explored further.

Feature Overview
----------------

The Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0-M1 release includes implementations of the
main SCA specifications and some recent updates from Open CSA drafts including:

    * SCA Assembly Model V1.0
    * SCA Policy Framework V1.0
    * SCA Java Common Annotations and APIs V1.0
    * SCA Java Component Implementation V1.0
    * SCA Web Services Binding V1.0

It also includes implementations of features not yet defined
by SCA specifications, including:

    * SCA bindings for RMI.
    * Databindings for JAXB, Axis2's AXIOM, DOM, SAX and StAX

In milestone one Tuscany SCA supports the following host-deployment options: -

    * running standalone
    * running in a OSGi enabled runtime Environment (Equinox)
    * running with distributed nodes across multiple JVMs but
      without domain configuration support

For full details about the release and to download the distributions
please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-2x-releases.html

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code,
testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is
always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in
Apache Tuscany visit the website at:

http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!

The Apache Tuscany Team.

-- 
Luciano Resende

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0 M1 Released

[Gavin <ga...@16degrees.com.au>]

Hi Luciano,

Perhaps you'd like to replace the outdated release info (1.32 SCA) on
apache.org main index page with a snippet from this release ?

Tuscany is one of the only projects to use the main apache.org index page to
cover releases, I'd like to try and encourage others to do the same, to make
this page less stagnant in the future.

Cheers

Gav...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: luckbr1975@gmail.com [mailto:luckbr1975@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Luciano Resende
> Sent: Friday, 20 February 2009 6:08 PM
> To: dev@tuscany.apache.org; user@tuscany.apache.org; announce@apache.org;
> announce@apachenews.org
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0 M1 Released
> 
> The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the 2.0 M1 release of
> the Java SCA project.
> 
> Apache Tuscany provides a runtime based on the Service Component
> Architecture (SCA) which is a set of specifications aimed at
> simplifying SOA Application Development. The SCA specifications are
> being standardized at OASIS as part of the Open Composite Services
> Architecture (Open CSA) - http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/.
> 
> The Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0-M1 release is the first milestone on the
> road to a full Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0 release. The goal of Apache
> Tuscany SCA 2.0 is to provide an OSGi based SCA runtime that is
> compliant with the OASIS SCA specifications.
> 
> With this first milestone release, a solid OSGi foundation is in place
> to support the development, build, testing and deployment of Tuscany
> modules and extensions following OSGi best practices. The first steps
> have also been taken to incorporate the latest OASIS SCA draft
> specifications.
> 
> In subsequent milestone releases the compliance gap with the OASIS
> specifications will continue to be narrowed and, now that the OSGi
> infrastructure in place, OSGi/SCA integration at the application level
> will be explored further.
> 
> Feature Overview
> ----------------
> 
> The Apache Tuscany SCA 2.0-M1 release includes implementations of the
> main SCA specifications and some recent updates from Open CSA drafts
> including:
> 
>     * SCA Assembly Model V1.0
>     * SCA Policy Framework V1.0
>     * SCA Java Common Annotations and APIs V1.0
>     * SCA Java Component Implementation V1.0
>     * SCA Web Services Binding V1.0
> 
> It also includes implementations of features not yet defined
> by SCA specifications, including:
> 
>     * SCA bindings for RMI.
>     * Databindings for JAXB, Axis2's AXIOM, DOM, SAX and StAX
> 
> In milestone one Tuscany SCA supports the following host-deployment
> options: -
> 
>     * running standalone
>     * running in a OSGi enabled runtime Environment (Equinox)
>     * running with distributed nodes across multiple JVMs but
>       without domain configuration support
> 
> For full details about the release and to download the distributions
> please go to:
> 
> http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-2x-releases.html
> 
> Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code,
> testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is
> always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in
> Apache Tuscany visit the website at:
> 
> http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany
> 
> Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!
> 
> The Apache Tuscany Team.
> 
> --
> Luciano Resende