Another buzzword around at the moment is IBM’s Service Component Architecture (SCA).

There is an article on developerWorks that describes SCA - Service Component Architecture:

Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a set of specifications which describe a model for building applications and systems using a Service-Oriented Architecture. SCA extends and complements prior approaches to implementing services, and SCA builds on open standards such as Web services.

Basically, my understanding is that SCA is a proposed standard for how to develop components that could be used within a system built along the principals of a Service Oriented Architecture.

James Governor over at RedMonk writes a fairly cynical piece on Why SCA has a lot to prove: J2EE all over.

I was at IBM’s annual analyst conference last week and the excitement levels among staff about Service Component Architecture was palpable.

Its such a weird industry - we get excited about the introduction of a new abstraction layer…

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