Re: [soa-rm] Groups - Rough notes taken during the last ebSOA meeting.(ebSOA-Elements.pdf) uploaded

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Ken:

Until we know the "what" of what SOA is, it may be hard to answer some 
of these questions.  These are all questions that will depend on a 
normative reference model to answer, hence our work.

Duane

Ken Laskey wrote:

> Might it not be good to start by listing the capabilities an SOA 
> enables?  For example, an SOA enables a set of distributed resources 
> (both data and processing resources) to be assembled to accomplish a 
> task defined independently from the SOA or its implementation.  
> Questions that follow are
> - how do you know the resources exist? (seems to imply some catalog 
> mechanism)
> - how do you know what the resources provide?
> - how do you understand the resource, assuming it may use a vocabulary 
> that differs with (although it may overlap) yours?
> - how do you ascertain the quality of the resource?
> - how do you decide if the resource is useful in satisfying your task?
> - if the resource may be useful, how do you access/invoke it?
> - how do you use a given resource consistently with other resources?
> - how do you capture what resources you used, in what order, and the 
> rationale for their choice and use?
>
> Now, what do our answers to these imply about the architecture?  
> Everything tends to be described in tiers of functionality, e.g. (my 
> favorites) user interface layer, service composition/meditation layer, 
> resource layer, and then there is the question of are there certain 
> types of services, e.g. discovery, that are so intrinsically part of 
> the concept that these need to be specifically called out?
>
> Let the fun begin!
>
> Ken
>
>
> At 01:01 PM 3/22/2005, mattm@adobe.com wrote:
>
>> The document named Rough notes taken during the last ebSOA meeting. 
>> (ebSOA-Elements.pdf) has been submitted by Mr Matthew MacKenzie to 
>> the OASIS SOA Reference Model TC document repository. Document 
>> Description: View Document Details: 
>> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/soa-rm/document.php?document_id=11966 
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