IBM Service Component Architecture Explorer Tool

A metadata explorer that presents information about the service component architecture (SCA) services available in a given WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus server or WebSphere Process Server.

Date Posted: March 7, 2006

Overview Requirements Download FAQs Forum Reviews 1. What does SCA Explorer look like? Can I get a glimpse before installing it? 2. What level of SCA is supported? 3. Where can I learn more about SCA? 4. How do I run SCA Explorer? 5. What if I want to run SCA Explorer from a machine other than the server? 6. What browsers are supported? 7. How does SCA Explorer work? 8. How does SCA Explorer differ from the SCA panels in the ESB and WPS administration console? 9. What does SCA Explorer do? 10. What information is available for an SCA module? 1. What does SCA Explorer look like? Can I get a glimpse before installing it? Take a look at the screenshot.gif inside the zip file. Back to top 2. What level of SCA is supported? SCA Explorer supports the level of SCA included in ESB and WPS 6.0.1, which is version 0.9. Back to top 3. Where can I learn more about SCA? Click on the SCA link near the top of the page (right above where the modules are listed). Back to top 4. How do I run SCA Explorer? Start the application and go to http://localhost:9080/scaExplorer. Back to top 5. What if I want to run SCA Explorer from a machine other than the server? Simply replace the "localhost" part of the URL with the actual machine name or IP address. Back to top 6. What browsers are supported? SCA Explorer has been successfully tested in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Netscape 8.1. Back to top 7. How does SCA Explorer work? SCA Explorer uses the SCA Metadata APIs to mine an SCA module's Service Component Definition Language (SCDL) files. Back to top 8. How does SCA Explorer differ from the SCA panels in the ESB and WPS administration console? Those panels only let you set binding information per module. The SCA Explorer shows information about each available operation. Back to top 9. What does SCA Explorer do? SCA Explorer displays all SCA modules running in the server and provides further information per module via the tree widget. Back to top 10. What information is available for an SCA module? SCA Explorer will show a module's components, references, imports, and exports. Each of these can have interfaces. Back to top