Re: [ebsoa] Process-Oriented Architectures (POA)

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Steve,

What is interesting is that this does appear to be an implementation
of the OASIS BCM Linking and Switching choice points system.

Of course getting an open XML based API is another challenge,

DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ross-Talbot" <steve@enigmatec.net>
To: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
Cc: "ebSOA" <ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Monica J. Martin"
<monica.martin@sun.com>; "David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ebsoa] Process-Oriented Architectures (POA)


> Interestingly POM (Process Oriented Middleware) is a take on POA. An
> example of this would be:
>
> http://www.enigmatec.net/Products/RIF%20Middleware.html
>
> Now you can see why I am interested in this space.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve T
> On Jun 7, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
> > That would be Booz Allen Hamilton. ;) :P
> >
> > David RR Webber wrote:
> >>
> >> Joe,
> >>
> >> I'm not sure - sometimes this is subliminal!
> >>
> >> I have dim recollection of see something Gartnerish that
> >> mentioned POA back last month - and I ranted about
> >> the need of analysts to invent new acronyms every
> >> six months or so - to keep charging their clients
> >> to explain it to them....
> >>
> >> Not that I'd think that of BAH of course ; -)
> >>
> >> DW
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
> >> To: "ebSOA" <ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Monica J. Martin"
> >> <monica.martin@sun.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:45 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ebsoa] Process-Oriented Architectures (POA)
> >>
> >>> Someone outside our TC must have been reading our archives for this
> >>> thread[1] :)
> >>>
> >>> "POA: Building SOA from the Ground Up":
> >>> [1] http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45098&DE=1
> >>>
> >>> Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I know that our concentration is to be service-oriented
> >>>> architectures,
> >>>> but at the same time I'm thinking about what will lie beyond (so
> >>>> that we
> >>>> can best prepare). A term popped into my head on the way home
> >>>> yesterday
> >>>> (the DC Beltway apparatentely inspires me): Process-Oriented
> >>>> Architecture, or "POA".
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anyone heard this term used before? I Google'd it and found few
> >>>> hits, all of which seemed to be individual (rather than corporate)
> >>>> references.
> >>>>
> >>>> As you can tell from the term, just as SOAs enable (involve, pick
> >>>> your
> >>>> favorite word here) the use of shared services, POAs will extend
> >>>> SOAs to
> >>>> enable the use of shared Web Services-based processes that are
> >>>> based on
> >>>> shared Web Services that are defined within SOAs, working in concert
> >>>> with each other. So for a US federal application (my primary
> >>>> client),
> >>>> this could mean a set of shared Web Services-based business
> >>>> processes
> >>>> for federal agencies, in a flexible, agile, process environment.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does this concept resound with anyone?
> >>>> --
> >>>> Kind Regards,
> >>>> Joseph Chiusano
> >>>> Associate
> >>>> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Kind Regards,
> >>> Joseph Chiusano
> >>> Associate
> >>> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
> >>>
> >
> > -- 
> > Kind Regards,
> > Joseph Chiusano
> > Associate
> > Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>
>