Appendix B. What’s next?
You may not be surprised to hear that the Tuscany community has already started implementing the next version of the Tuscany software, building on the 1.x code base, user feedback, and experience gained. We’d like to share the highlights of the future direction of Tuscany 2.x with you, especially if you’re interested in participating in the development of this next Tuscany version.
If you have Tuscany 1.x applications that you want to run using the evolving Tuscany 2.x runtime, you need to make a few changes and you need to be aware of a few differences in the runtime. You can see instructions about what to do on the Tuscany website at http://tuscany.apache.org/documentation-2x/converting-tuscany-1x-applications.html.
Tuscany has been a major contributor to the development of the SCA specifications that are now being standardized at OASIS. Therefore, one focus is to move to the standardized version of the SCA specifications. Future releases of Tuscany will continue adding support for new technologies and will integrate with OSGi for improved modularity. It’s also becoming clear that Tuscany and SCA offer a service model that’s well aligned with the emerging idea of cloud computing. That’s another area where we’ll see further development and innovation. Let’s take a closer look at some of these ideas.