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Subject: Re: [regrep] Dynamic Discovery/Binding/Invocation
Evan, You touch on the crux of the matter here. For example - people are attempting to drive XSD as that lingua franca - but it is not equipped for the job - nor was ever intended to be. The pragmatic approach wins out over time. There maybe a better theoretical approach - but if it is not simple enough for average business users - it will not succeed. Essentially there are two approaches - #1 - the UBL one - of enforcing standardized bricks and palettes, and #2 - the OAGi style approach that blends some component standardization with extensibility. Human nature, and the nature of competitive business edge - gravitates to #2. In either case - having uniforms means of expressing this - that CAM, SCM and Registry bring to the table - reduces the number of deltas that you are grappling with. Therefore - simply going thru the exercise of utilizing OASIS specifications like CAM - brings about convergence and simplifies the overall task. Bearing in mind that the domain is eBusiness interfacing, then you expect that techniques and tools that have been fashioned in the crucible of business use for the past 25 years - will work and will be applicable. If the domain is something like satellite telemetry from the Mars space probe - then do not expect OASIS specifications to work well there. In summary - within domains - OAGi to OAGi, etc, strong alignment - across domains - OAGi - CIDX, weak alignment. Just for the record - domain based integration is a lynchpin of the BCM approach. Thanks, DW ----- Original Message ----- We have been working for a while on similar problems in our Automated Methods for Integrating Systems [AMIS] project. There are lots of hard problems here such as: discovering semantic links, defining semantic maps, building non-lossy tranformations between models/schemas. This is made worse by the complexity of the content models for even "simple" transactions in popular ebusiness message suites such as OAGIS BODs or CIDX Chem eStandards. Will it ever be possible? Perhaps, although under very constrained conditions with better tools and with standard transaction suites built with a different design philosophy. IMHO start with extendable semantic models of business objects and build process and interface definitions from these. -Evan
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