Service Data Objects is a technology that allows heterogenous data to be accessed in a uniform way. The SDO specification was originally developed in 2004 as a joint collaboration between BEA and IBM and approved by the Java Community Process. Version 2.0 of the specification was introduced in November 2005 as key part of the Service Component Architecture.
The specification is now being developed by:
The specification is also supported with products from vendors:
- Rogue Wave Software
- CodeFutures Software
There are open source implementations of SDO from:
- The Apache Tuscany project for Java and C++
- The SDO for PHP project
References
IBM Introduction to Service Data Objects
CodeFutures Introduction to Service Data Objects
Introducing Service Data Objects for PHP