Apache Tuscany SCA 1.2.1 (incubating) June 2008 Release Notes ============================================================= Apache Tuscany provides a runtime based on the Service Component Architecture. SCA is a set of specifications aimed at simplifying SOA Application Development which are being standardized at OASIS as part of Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) - http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/. This 1.2.1 release is a minor maintenance release over the 1.2 release, see the CHANGES file for a detailed list of the fixes in this release. Overview -------- The Apache Tuscany SCA 1.2.1 release includes implementations of the main SCA specifications 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 Spring Component Implementation V1.0 SCA BPEL Client and Implementation V1.0 SCA Web Services Binding V1.0 SCA EJB Session Bean Binding V1.0 It also includes implementations of many features not yet defined by SCA specifications, including: - SCA bindings for Direct Web Remoting, RSS and ATOM Feeds, HTTP resources, JSON-RPC, PUB/SUB Notifications, and RMI. - SCA implementation types for OSGI, XQuery, BPEL, Widget and various dynamic languages including Groovy, Javascript, Python and Ruby - Databindings for Service Data Objects (SDO), JAXB, XmlBeans, Axis2's AXIOM, JSON, SAXON, DOM, SAX and StAX The Tuscany SCA Runtime can be configured as a single node SCA domain or as an SCA domain distributed across multiple nodes. In addition Tuscany SCA supports the following host-deployment options: - - running standalone - running with distributed nodes across multiple JVMs - running with embedded Jetty or Tomcat - running as part of a standard web application The Wepapp samples included in this release have been tried and tested on - Tomcat 5.5.20 and Tomcat 6.0.14 - Jetty 6.1.3 - Geronimo 2.0.2 Tomcat6 jee5 - WebSphere 6.1 fix pack 9 Support ------- For more information on Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/ Any issues with this release can be reported to Apache Tuscany using the mailing lists or in the JIRA issue tracker. Mailing list archives: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-tuscany-user/ http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-tuscany-dev/ Jira: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY To join the project's mailing lists follow the instructions at: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/mailing-lists.html To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to: http://www.oasis-opencsa.org. Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, improving the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. Thank you for using Apache Tuscany! - The Tuscany Team.