Service Component Architecture

Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a model to define and implement SOA based solutions. This section details the IBM® implementation of SOA within WebSphere® ESB, and its associated tooling, Integration Designer.

There are two defined sections within SCA:
  1. Service assembly, which details the service definitions and relationships of the export, import, components and interfaces
  2. Service implementation, which details the construction of the service definition and the transport of information through defined protocols (web services, JMS, MQ, adapters).
In an SOA framework, high-level business components are exposed as services. SCA provides a model for how the services in an SOA framework are structured.
Parent topic: Enterprise Service Bus programming