Rational Developer for System z

CICS Service Component Architecture (SCA) Tools

CICS® SCA Development Tools is a powerful, integrated extension to IBM® Rational® Developer for System z® for assembling service-oriented application components based on the open Service Component Architecture and for deploying SCA assets to CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® 4.1.

Overview

CICS SCA Development Tools includes a concise set of tools for developing SCA service components implemented with CICS application programs, for graphically wiring components together to form new composite services, for associating protocol bindings to SCA components, and for packaging up SCA assets and deploying them to CICS Transaction Server for z/OS.

For an overview of SCA, SOA, CICS support for SCA, and the CICS SCA Tools user interface, see the following links:

Getting started

Some of the basic tasks that you can do with CICS SCA Tools are as follows:

Samples and tutorials

Following are links to a CICS SCA sample and a CICS SCA tutorial:

Resources for learning available on the Web

Following are some resources for learning that are available on the Web:

RSS feeds

Following is a list of Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds that may pertain to CICS SCA Tools:


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