OASIS announced on Wednesday formation of the Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) Member Section, which is an initiative to advance standards that simplify SOA.Open CSA will promote development of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) specifications. SCA is intended to enable design and transformation of IT assets into reusable services. SDO lets programmers access and manipulate data from heterogeneous services, such as databases, XML data services and Web services. OASIS has been selected as the venue for advancing these specifications. The Open CSA Member Section will oversee new OASIS Technical Committees for SCA and SDO. Members of the Open CSA initiative include companies such as BEA Systems, Oracle, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Technology Industry