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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer"
Rex: IMO - our existing charter does well since we constrained "architecture" specific to the realm of software, even though we had the discussion that Starbucks is really also SOA. Architecture - Software architecture for a system is the structure or structures of the system, which consist of elements and their externally visible properties, and the relationships among them. Duane Rex Brooks wrote: > I think we need further discussion. I would like to see the definition > of service consumer, even though it is a compound term and might be > hyphenated in plain English "service-consumer" and created as a Class > in UML as "ServiceConsumer," and all first order SOA Terms, discussed > in the context of a definition of "IT" as the domain of SOA. So, I > guess what I am saying is that I think we need to chew over the > charter and vote on it even though, presumably, we all bought into the > charter as-was. By that I mean the sentence: > > "A reference model is not directly tied to any standards, technologies > or other concrete implementation details, but it does seek to provide > a common semantics that can be used unambiguously across and between > different implementations." > > I really do believe that SOA, in broad terms, is applicable outside > the realm of IT, but the term arose within it and either it should be > bounded by an accepted definition of "Information Technology" in > general and "knowledge management" in particular. Or we should define > our own particular context, since, as a matter of fact, when we have a > plumbing leak in our domiciles, we become agents seeking to consume a > "plumbing" service in a very literal "SOA" where the architecture is > the architecture of traditional scope even if we try to manage it > through our own efforts researching the specific field by whatever > means necessary, as anyone who has engaged in this exercise out of > necessity at some time in their lives can readily attest... the point > being that we need to get our "logical ducks" in a row as well as > other considerations such as defining our audience, working top-down, > bottom-up or mixing and matching methodologies. > > Ciao, > Rex > > > > At 7:06 AM -0400 4/8/05, Chiusano Joseph wrote: > >> Please also include my suggestion of "entity (human or machine)" for >> additional choices (I'm sure you sent this before you read my e-mail on >> that). >> >> Thanks, >> Joe >> >> Joseph Chiusano >> Booz Allen Hamilton >> Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Gregory A. Kohring [mailto:kohring@ccrl-nece.de] >> > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:35 AM >> > To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org >> > Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer" >> > >> > >> > Here is a summary of yesterdays proposals for defining the >> > term "Service Consumer": >> > >> > 1) Software that invokes an instance, >> > >> > 2) Software that uses a service instance, >> > >> > 3) An agent that wishes to interact with a service, >> > >> > 4) An agent that interacts with a service in order to >> > achieve a goal, >> > >> > 5) An entity that binds with a service is playing the >> > role of service consumer, >> > >> > where the suggested definition of "agent" was: >> > >> > 1) An Agent is a software program acting on behalf of an owner. >> > >> > (By substituting this definition in some of the above >> > suggestions you can come up with yet more definitions of >> > service consumer.) >> > >> > >> > Now, just out of curiosity, how do we proceed from here? >> > Do we vote on one of the suggested definitions? (This implies >> > we should vote on the definitions of all the terms to be used >> > in the final document.) Or do we leave it up to the editors >> > to pick the definition which best fits the style of writing >> > being used within the final document? >> > >> > >> > -- Greg >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ====================================================================== >> > G.A. Kohring >> > C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd. >> > ====================================================================== >> > > > > >-- > > > Rex Brooks > President, CEO > Starbourne Communications Design > GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison > Berkeley, CA 94702 > Tel: 510-849-2309 -- *********** Senior Standards Strategist - Adobe Systems, Inc. - http://www.adobe.com Vice Chair - UN/CEFACT Bureau Plenary - http://www.unece.org/cefact/ Adobe Enterprise Developer Resources - http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/developer/main.html ***********
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