Service Component Architecture (SCA)

We have spoken a lot about service reuse and composing new services out of existing services, but we have yet to indicate how this may be done. The Service Component Architecture in SOA Suite is a standard that is used to define how services in a composite application are connected. It also defines how a service may interact with other services.

Service Component Architecture (SCA)

As can be seen in the preceding screenshot, an SCA composite consists of several different parts.

Component

A component represents a piece of business logic. It may be process logic, such as a BPEL process, routing logic, such as a mediator, or some other SOA Suite component. ...

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