Emerging service-oriented architecture (SOA) specifications are moving closer to becoming standards.
WS-Policy 1.5 reached proposed recommendation status this week in the W3C standards process, and at OASIS technical committees are forming this month to work on Service Component Architecture (SCA). Another OASIS technical committee for the C and C++ versions of Service Data Objects (SDO)specification is expected to form later this month and coordinate with work being done on the Java version of SDO in the Java Community Process (JCP).
While work is expected to begin on standardizing SCA and SDO in September at OASIS, Web Services Policy 1.5 will be nearing a final vote for approval as a W3C standard by then.
