ApacheCon US 2010 - Come learn about Tuscany and SCA and meet some of the core project developers

Want to learn more about Apache Tuscany and SCA ? Come to join us at ApacheCon Atlanta, attend the Apache Tuscany Track sessions (Thursday, Nov 4th) and met some of the core project developers.

Building applications with Apache Tuscany
Jean-Sebastien Delfino

Building Cloud Native software
Paul Fremantle

SCA Reaches the Cloud
Jean-Sebastien Delfino

Building RESTful services using SCA and JAX-RS
Luciano Resende

High performance cloud-enabled SCA runtimes
Jean-Sebastien Delfino

Photark/Tuscany Integration
Avdhesh Yadav

Tuscany related sessions at JavaOne 2010

Some of us will be at JavaOne this year, and we will be presenting
two Tuscany related sessions :

S314011 - Developing composite applications for the Cloud using Apache Tuscany
Wednesday, September 22, 11:30AM

Today's cloud environments pose new challenges for application
developers: hiding cloud infrastructure from business logic,
assembling components on heterogeneous and distributed cloud
environments, and optimizing the provisioning of the required cloud
resources. This session will demonstrate how to use Apache Tuscany and
the Service Component Architecture (SCA) to develop, build, and run an
application composed of several service components in a distributed
cloud environment. We'll illustrate how to encapsulate cloud
infrastructure services as SCA components to simplify the construction
and assembly of the application and how to move components around and
rewire the application to adjust to new business and cloud deployment
conditions.


S313731 - Databinding Unleashed for Composite Applications
Tuesday, September 21, 8:00AM

Data bindings such as JAXB, SDO, DOM, and JSON denote how business
data is represented. Collaborating components in a composite
application often need to use different data bindings as required by
the business logic or protocol stacks. Apache Tuscany provides a
framework that allows mixing and matching of data bindings so that
application developers can have the freedom to choose their preferred
data binding technology without worrying about complex data
transformations. This session is for developers looking for
flexibility of data bindings in the enterprise. Attendees will learn
about: * Decoupling data bindings between service consumers and
providers * Tuscany?s approach to transform data without the
intervention from application code


If you are going to be around, stop by and introduce yourself...

Apache PhotArk M1-incubating released

The Apache PhotArk team is pleased to announce the release of Apache PhotArk M1-incubating.

Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application including a content repository for the images, a display piece, an access control layer, and upload capabilities. The idea is to have a rigid design for the content repository with a very flexible display piece. The images in the content repository will be protected with granular access control.

PhotArk gallery currently allows you define a set of albums hosted locally, and also allows you to aggregate external albums exposed as feeds (e.g from Flickr or Picassa web) and provides a default web UI for album navigation.

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

http://incubator.apache.org/photark/downloads.html

Apache PhotArk uses SCA/Apache Tuscany composition for it's services and Web 2.0 bindings to provide Ajax style Gallery UI.

Apache PhotArk 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 PhotArk visit the website at:

http://incubator.apache.org/photark/

Apache Tuscany graduated as a Top Level Apache Project !!!

Thanks everybody that helped during the "Incubation Journey" !!!
Today, May 21st, Tuscany graduated as a Top Level Apache Project.

The fun is just beginning!!!!
Let's keep up the good work !!!

Matthieu wrote:

"Special order 7B, Establish the Apache Tuscany Project, was approved by
Unanimous Vote of the directors present."

Congratulations guys!

Matthieu

Article : Building SOA with Tuscany SCA - A simple service-oriented infrastructure

Building SOA with Tuscany SCA
— Many articles have already been written about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Service Component Architecture (SCA), for example, see references [1] and [2]. In this article we'll focus on a freely available, open source implementation of the Service Component Architecture that provides a simple way to implement SOA solutions. This SCA implementation is being developed in the Apache Tuscany Incubator project. The project started in 2006 and is being used by many who are looking for a simple SOA infrastructure. The recent Tuscany SCA version 1.0, which was released in September 2007, supports the Service Component Architecture specifications 1.0.