Part 1. Understanding Tuscany and SCA

Tuscany SCA In Action teaches you to use the Service Component Architecture (SCA) through practical examples developed using the Java SCA runtime from the Apache Tuscany open source project. This part of the book provides a broad introduction to SCA and Apache Tuscany using a travel-booking scenario. It presents an overview of Apache Tuscany and helps you to set up your environment so that you can develop and run the examples in this book. This is all covered in three chapters.

In chapter 1, “Introducing Tuscany and SCA,” you’ll learn about the Apache Tuscany open source project and the travel-booking scenario and be introduced to SCA at a high level. By the end of this chapter, you’ll have an appreciation of SCA and will be able to run a small part of our travel-booking application.

Chapter 2, “Using SCA components,” covers SCA in greater detail. You’ll gain a better understanding of SCA and use it to create more of the components that compose the travel-booking application.

Chapter 3, “SCA composite applications,” covers the deployment of SCA-based applications. Here, you’ll learn about the flexible deployment model that Tuscany SCA offers and experiment with deploying the travel application in a local or distributed environment.

By the end of part 1, you’ll know about Tuscany and SCA and will have built and deployed a simple travel application.