SCA and SDO, emerging standards designed to provide programming models developers could use in creating Web services, have yet to fully mature and reach a standards body, but 2007 appears to be the year they will.
Hopes were raised this past July that SCA/SDO would find a standards home for Christmas. Open SOA (OSOA), the vendor group, including IBM, BEA Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp., which is currently working on the standards, indicated last summer that they would make a decision on a standards body by the end of 2006. Now, it appears it will be sometime in 2007.
