Re: [soa-rm-ra] Views and viewpoints

[Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@mac.com>]

I feel that a key concept for the service as business viewpoint is  
the RWE. But, BPM is also important.

It is an interesting question about what happens to the relationships  
between services.

For the service view, I would agree that it does seem to mean  
orchestration/choreography.

For the business view, I think it means also modeling any  
dependencies between services (a falafel delivery service has no  
business justification if the falafels have not been paid for.)

BPMN is being used now for modeling business processes. So, it would  
be a good choice in principle. It is not what I would have liked to  
have seen in this space. (Do not quote me...)

BPMN is currently mostly about orchestration. There is some plan to  
include choreographic aspects also.

But, it has no handle on the RWE of services.

Frank

On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Danny Thornton wrote:

> I'm looking at the RA from a business process
> perspective and wondering how "Relationship Between
> Services" changes for the new views/models.  Does this
> section become the Service Composition and
> Choreography model under the Service view?
>
> There is also the Business Processes model under the
> Service as Business view that we currently do not have
> defined in the RA.  If I want to relate an
> implementation that uses Business Process Modeling
> Notation (BPMN) to the SOA RA, I think this would be
> extensions of the Service Composition and Choreography
> model and the Business Processes model.  Any thoughts?
>
> Danny
>
> --- Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> We had a discussion about formalizing a views and
>> viewpoints in the
>> face to face; and we had another discussion on the
>> matter during
>> today's telcon.
>>
>> In order for this approach to make sense, it is
>> important to have the
>> right number of views; too many and it becomes
>> unwieldy, too few and
>> it becomes less useful.
>>
>>  From this point of view (sic), we identified the
>> following major
>> views of the RA. The titles of these views are
>> intended to be
>> suggestive of the viewpoint; but are not cast in
>> stone.
>>
>> ServiceAsBusiness view
>>    "How are business needs met using SOA?" is the
>> key question.
>>    Models in this view would fold existing sections:
>>
>>    Needs and capabilities
>>    Participants
>>    Real World Effect
>>    Business Processes
>>
>> Service view
>>    "What are services, what support is needed and
>> how are they
>> realized?"
>>    Models in this view would consist of:
>>
>>    Service Description
>>    Service Visibility
>>    Interacting with services
>>    Service Transactions
>>    Service Composition and Choreography
>>
>> Security in SOA
>>    "How can we be assured of the safety of using
>> services?"
>>    Models in this view would include
>>
>>    Security Threats
>>    Security policies
>>    Trust model
>>    Security enforcement
>>
>> Deployment of SOA
>>    "What does it take to deploy SOAs?"
>>    This view would include the models:
>>
>>    Management of services
>>    Governance in SOA
>>    Compliance
>>    Testing models for SOAs
>>
>> Policies and Contracts
>>    "How do people express constraints in an SOA
>> context?"
>>    In one reading, policies and contracts represents
>> an important
>> infrastructural element that needs to be focused on.
>> Policies and
>> contracts could be modeled in each of the views
>> above, or in their
>> own view.
>>     Specifically, we would model
>>
>>    Policy and contract descriptions
>>    Policy/contract enforcement
>>
>>
>> We decided to open this discussion to the list
>> before committing it
>> to the WIKI. Comments would be welcome.
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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