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PROPOSED CHARTER FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT
OASIS SERVICE COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE
ASSEMBLY TC
1. Normative Information
a. Name
OASIS Service Component Architecture Assembly (SCA-Assembly) Technical
Committee (TC)
Member Section Affiliation
Open CSA Member Section
b. Statement of Purpose
The purpose of the Service Component Architecture Assembly Technical Committee
is to define the core composition model of Service Component Architecture. Service
Component Architecture (SCA) defines a model for the creation of business solutions
using a Service-Oriented Architecture, based on the concept of Service Components
which offer services and which make references to other services. SCA models
business solutions as compositions of groups of service components, wired together
in a configuration that satisfies the business goals. SCA applies aspects such as
communication methods and policies for infrastructure capabilities such as security
and transactions through metadata attached to the compositions.
This work will be carried out through continued refinement of the Service Component
Architecture Assembly Specification Version 1.0 [1] as published by the Open SOA
collaboration in March 2007.
c. Scope
The TC will accept as input the March 2007 Version 1.0 of the Service Component
Architecture (SCA) Assembly Specification as published by the Open SOA
collaboration [1].
The TC will also accept as input for reference the March 2007 Version 1.0 of the
other SCA Specifications which were published at the same time as the SCA
Assembly Specification [2].
Other contributions and changes to the input documents will be accepted for
consideration without any prejudice or restrictions and evaluated based on technical
merit in so far as they conform to this charter. OASIS members with extensive
experience and knowledge in these areas are particularly invited to participate.
The scope of the TC's work is to continue further refinement and finalization of the
Input Documents to produce as output specifications that standardize the concepts,
XML documents and XML Schema renderings of the areas described below.
1. A model for the composition of systems based on a service-oriented
architecture, based on the concepts of a) service components and b)
composites. This model is independent of implementation languages and
technologies and also independent of communication technologies.
2. Describing the characteristics of a service component in terms of its externally
visible features including services offered, service references made and
configurable properties. Includes the configuration aspects of the services,
references and of the implementation used by the component.
3. Describing the externally visible characteristics of a component
implementation in terms of its componentType
4. Describing the design aspects of a component in terms of a constrainingType.
5. Describing the characteristics of composites including the external aspects of
services, references and configurable properties, plus the aspects of internal
wiring of the composite, including autowiring.
6. Use of Composite as implementations. Use of Composites through inclusion.
7. Definition of the nature of interfaces as used by services and references,
including local and remote interfaces, bidirectional and conversational
interfaces, oneway operations, plus the message flow patterns involved.
Rendering of these concepts in terms of WSDL is in-scope, including
necessary additional annotations of WSDL documents to hold SCA concepts.
8. Declaration and setting of property values, including simple and complex
types.
9. Rendering of the model in terms of XML documents and their associated
XML Schemas. Defining the model in terms of XML Infoset to permit other
parties to render the model in other serialization forms is also regarded as in-
scope.
10. Describing the extension points of the model, including implementation types,
binding types, interface types. The relationship of the model to these types is
part of the scope, but the details of individual types will be dealt with
elsewhere, except for the handling of the composite implementation type, the
SCA ("default") binding type and the WSDL interface type. Specific
extensions to WSDL are in-scope for the purposes of making a WSDL
document contain information relevant to its usage in an SCA context.
11. The handling of service interfaces, including the nature of the message
exchange patterns and the handling of synchronous, asynchronous and one-
way interactions. Techniques including Pub/Sub and Queue handling form
part of this description.
12. Description of SCA Bindings in general terms, plus a definition and
description of the SCA Binding.
13. The SCA Domain and its characteristics and contents, including Domain-level
composite.
14. Packaging and deployment of SCA related artifacts, including the relationship
to a runtime and characteristics of the runtime are part of the specification.
SCA Artifact resolution, plus the use of existing non-SCA mechanisms. SCA
Contributions and their metadata. SCA packaging format.
15. The place in the model for the attachment of Intents and Policies are described
in general terms. Specifics of Intents and Policies are handled in another TC.
16. Portability and interoperability of SCA artifacts and SCA components between
different SCA runtimes.
17. Diagrammatic representation of SCA composites and components.
Upwards Compatibility
There are no formal requirements for upwards compatibility from the input documents
to this TC. This is to ensure that the TC has maximum freedom of action in defining
the OASIS standard. However it is recognized that there will be early
implementations in the marketplace based upon these input documents and careful
consideration must be applied to any change of feature/function that would cause
incompatibilities in the OASIS standard at:
* Source Code level
* Compiled Object Code
* XML data definitions
At minimum, known enhancements to the input documents that will cause
compatibility issues with early implementations in the marketplace will be specified
in a chapter in the specification offering migration guidance.
Conformance
In line with the OASIS TC process, the TC will produce normative conformance
information describing the normative characteristics of the specification and specific
statements about what an implementation must do to conform to the specification,
what aspects are optional (if any).
Test Suite
The TC will produce a test suite which can be used to test conformance to the
specification which will include:
1. Describe a series of valid and invalid test cases which cover as much as is
practical of the conformance statements of the specifications produced by this
TC, with a description of each of the artifacts involved, constraints on the
environment, the test case characteristics and their expected behavior.
2. The provided artifacts should be independent of implementation language and
binding type, and show clear mappings which allow the provision of suitable
concrete implementations and concrete binding type, with any required
policies. The artifacts may include SCA composites expressed in XML,
WSDL interface files, and XSD files, along with other similar files that
express the required characteristics of the environment for each test.
3. Example implementations and bindings may form part of the test suite, and are
only provided as working samples which can be replaced by other specific
implementations and bindings.
The Test Suite shall be packaged separately from the specifications produced by the
TC and will contain a set of materials including but not limited to SCA composite and
related SCA files, WSDL files, XSD files.
The TC shall develop the test suite in collaboration with other TCs within the Open-
CSA Member Section.
The following material should be considered as best practice for the preparation of
conformance and test suite materials:
* From OASIS: material on specification conformance statements:
http://www.oasis-
open.org/committees/download.php/305/conformance_requirements-v1.pdf
* From the W3C, material on specification variability, test metadata &
specification clarity:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-spec-variability-20050831/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-test-metadata-20050914/
http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/
Out of Scope
The following is a non-exhaustive list. It is provided only for the sake of clarity. If
some function, mechanism or feature is not mentioned here, and it is not mentioned in
the Scope of Work section either, then it will be deemed to be out of scope.
The TC will not define a mapping of the functions and elements described in the
specifications to any programming language, to any particular middleware, nor to
specific network transports.
The following items are specifically out of scope of the work of the TC:
1. Details of specific SCA implementation types other than composites. These
are handled through separate TCs.
2. Details of specific SCA binding types other than the SCA binding. These are
handled through separate TCs.
3. Details of the Policy Framework or specific intents and policies, other than
any intents and policies designed for use with composites as implementation
types or with the SCA binding type or designed for the general annotation of
interfaces with SCA-related features.
4. Aspects of Workflow, such as capability provided by the WS-BPEL language,
other than the use of the BPEL language (or other similar languages) as a
technology for implementing service components.
5. Areas of capability described by the various Web services specifications.
SCA uses the Web services specifications, but is not intended to define or
modify Web services functions, other than specific extensions required to
capture SCA concepts identified in the in-scope section.
6. Concrete management interfaces or APIs for monitoring and managing
domains, contributions, composites, and service components.
d. Deliverables
The TC has the following set of deliverables:
1. A revised Service Component Architecture Assembly Specification and
associated Schema, plus conformance statements.
A Committee Specification is scheduled for completion within 12 months of
the first TC meeting.
2. A complete Test Suite specification for the SCA Assembly Specification,
including documents and the related materials described in the scope section.
A Committee Specification is scheduled for completion within 12 months of
the first TC meeting.
Exit Criteria
The TC shall define concrete exit criteria that include at least two independent
offerings that implement and are compliant with the all normative portions of
specifications and demonstrate interoperability and portability as appropriate. Note
that these are minimums and that the TC is free to set more stringent criteria.
Maintenance
Once the TC has completed work on a deliverable and it has become and OASIS
standard, the TC will enter "maintenance mode" for the deliverable.
The purpose of maintenance mode is to provide minor revisions to previously adopted
deliverables to clarify ambiguities, inconsistencies and obvious errors. Maintenance
mode is not intended to enhance a deliverable or extend its functionality.
The TC will collect issues raised against the deliverables and periodically process
those issues. Issues that request or require new or enhanced functionality shall be
marked as enhancement requests and set aside. Issues that result in the clarification or
correction of the deliverables shall be processed. The TC shall maintain a list of these
adopted clarifications and shall periodically create a new minor revision of the
deliverables including these updates. Periodically, but at least once a year, the TC
shall produce and vote upon a new minor revision of the deliverables.
e. IPR Mode
The TC will operate under the RF on Limited Terms mode under the OASIS IPR
Policy.
f. Anticipated audience:
The anticipated audience for this work includes:
* Vendors offering products designed to support applications using a service-
oriented architecture
* Other specification authors that need the assembly of service components
* Software architects and programmers, who design, write, integrate and deploy
applications using a service-oriented architecture
* End users implementing solutions that require an interoperable, composable
solution using components that offer services and use services provided by
others
* Vendors making products used to integrate applications and services (both
hardware and software), such as ESBs.
g. Language
The TC shall conduct its proceedings in English.
2. Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC
a. Related and similar work
The SCA specifications are intended to encompass a range of technologies which are
useful in implementing service-oriented solutions. These include the range of Web-
services related specifications such as WSDL and SOAP, the various WS-Security
specifications, WS-Addressing, WS-Notification. The list is extensive and there is no
limit to the relevance of these specifications to SCA. SCA does not intend to replace
these specifications, but to build upon them.
Other existing technologies such as Java Enterprise Edition and CORBA also have a
relationship to SCA and SCA anticipates optionally using these in relevant parts of the
specifications (eg to define specific implementation types for artifacts such as JEE
EJBs).
b. Proposed date, time, and location of first TC meeting
Date: Sept 4
Time: 11:00 EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Mode: Teleconference
Telephone: Dial-in TBC, along with e-Meeting facilities
Sponsor: Oracle
Date: Sept 18
Time: 09:00 EDT
Duration: 3 days (in parallel with F2F meetings of other TCs affiliated with this
member section)
Mode: F2F meeting in East-Coast USA location (location TBC)
Telephone: Dial-in TBC, along with e-Meeting facilities
Sponsor: IBM
c. On-going schedule
Weekly 60 Minute teleconferences sponsored by TBC.
Time TBC by the TC.
It is anticipated that the committee will meet face-to-face once every quarter at a date
and venue to be decided by the TC, but with a commitment to hold meetings in
different regions of the world so as to share the effort of travel.
d. Supporters:
The following eligible individuals are in support of this proposal:
Michael Beisiegel, IBM, mbgl@us.ibm.com
Mike Edwards, IBM, mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com
Michael Rowley, BEA, mrowley@bea.com
Alex Miller, BEA, almiller@bea.com
Martin Chapman, Oracle, martin.chapman@oracle.com
Anish Karmarkar, Oracle, anish.karmarkar@oracle.com
Ashok Malhotra, Oracle, ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
Sanjay Patil, SAP, sanjay.patil@sap.com
Henning Blohm, SAP, henning.blohm@sap.com
Scott Vorthmann, TIBCO, scottv@tibco.com
David Haney, RogueWave, haney@roguewave.com
David Booz, IBM, booz@us.ibm.com
Peter Walker, Sun Microsystems, peter.walker@sun.com
Glen Daniels, Progress, gdaniels@progress.com
Kimberly Palko, Progress, kpalko@progress.com
e. Convener:
Jeff Mischkinsky, Oracle, jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com
f. Name of Member Section to which this TC is Affiliated
Open CSA member section.
g. Anticipated contributions
It is expected that the existing SCA Assembly Specification Version 1.00 as published
in March 2007 will be a contributions from the Open SOA Collaboration (see [1]),
along with references to the other SCA Version 1.00 specifications (see [2]), plus any
work performed by the Open SOA collaboration between March 2007 and the start of
the work of the SCA-Assembly TC.
h. Draft FAQ Document
Intentionally left empty.
i. Proposed working title
Service Component Architecture Assembly Specification
References
[1] Service Component Architecture Assembly Specification Version 1.0
http://www.osoa.org/download/attachments/35/SCA_AssemblyModel_V100.pdf
[2] Service Component Architecture Version 1.0 Specifications
http://www.osoa.org/display/Main/Service+Component+Architecture+Specifications