Re: [ebsoa] events and agents as defined in an ebSOA

["Carl Mattocks" <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>]

Goran :

Please share with us whatever info you have on the Collaborative Process
Information Document (CPID).

I am copying the BCM & ebXMLRegistry folks since much of what you stated
has been positively discussed in the TC meetings.

carl

<quote who="Goran Zugic">
> Dan,
>
> Thanks for putting this discussion back on the standard track.
>
> I do not think that we have done a satisfactory job in regards to
> presenting
> our solution to David, John and the individuals from OASIS BCM TC. I want
> to
> assure you that our FERA-based ebSOA architectural solution includes all
> aspects of the SOA architecture on the level of the specification details
> that can be used for enterprise SOA implementations:
>
> - Collaborations (internal and external),
> - Security,
> - Messaging,
> - Protocol profiles and agreements,
> - Universal business documents formatting,
> - Registry and repository-based management of meta-data and business
> artifacts,
> - Business rules,
> - Agent frameworks
>
> Using the Federated Enterprise Reference Architecture (FERA) reference
> model
> we produced the set of ebSOA specifications needed to provide full
> enterprise level SOA support from both a functional as well as
> implementational point of view. We think that the missing factor in the
> ebSOA architecture is the semantic integration which brings all of the
> above
> aspects together. We have fully defined the FERA-based ebSOA collaboration
> semantics that resolves this problem. Our ebSOA collaboration semantics is
> also based on the formally defined information model that can be stored in
> a
> standard registry like the OASIS ebXML Registry or OASIS UDDI Registry and
> used to take care of both context and content related to any business
> process. This is supported by a single open standard-based XML document we
> call the Collaborative Process Information Document (CPID) that can be
> generated from a business process definition in a visual modeling tool.
> Submitting the content of this document to a standard registry will
> generate
> the entire collaboration process information model that together with
> FERA-based  ebSOA collaboration semantics already implemented via
> FERA-based
> ebSOA managers (remember all FERA-based managers in ebSOA architecture -
> Federation Manager, Agent Interface Manager, Event Manager, Activity
> Manager, etc.) enables full open standard-based support for the enterprise
> business collaboration processes of any complexity.
>
> Another important aspect of our proposed solution is standard convergence.
> We very much believe that standard convergence is the future and in our
> architectural solution we reference the best "standard brands" available
> today. It does not matter which standard body they are coming from. What
> matters is the standard's value in the ebSOA functional offerings. For
> example, these are some of the standard components we reference in the
> FERA-based ebSOA: OASIS ebXML BP, OASIS WSBPEL, OASIS UBL, OASIS ebXML
> Registry, OASIS UDDI, W3C SOAP, OASIS ebXML Messaging, WS-Security, OASIS
> XACML, OASIS SAML, WS-Reliability and others.
>
> We also want to mention that two important components of the FERA-based
> ebSOA architecture, Agent Framework and Business Rules, are not supported
> by
> any standard today. OMG has two pending Requests For Proposals related to
> business rules: Business Semantics of Business Rules and Production Rule
> Representation. Our definition of a standard is a specification produced
> and
> approved in a large recognizable standard body like OASIS, W3C, OMG, IEEE,
> etc.. Some specification components are coming from groups and programs
> like
> Java Community Process (JCP). While some of them achieved great success
> over
> last few years, we believe that ebSOA specification should reference
> standard components first. However, when the standard is not provided we
> recommend using other groups' specifications, but on the implementation
> level only. We believe that if some industry groups have valued
> specification offerings they should be encouraged to submit their spec
> proposals to standard bodies and speed up the process of developing very
> much needed standards that we do not have today.
>
> I hope that this clarifies key aspects related to our FERA-based ebSOA
> proposal and our vision about enterprise SOA.
>
> Regards,
> Goran
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Pattyn" <danpattyn@austin.rr.com>
> To: <john@crossconnections.ws>; "'David Webber (XML)'" <david@drrw.info>
> Cc: <vasco.drecun@cpd-associates.com>; "'Goran Zugic'"
> <gzugic@ebxmlsoft.com>; "'Dale Castle'" <dcastle@ebxmlsoft.com>; "'ebSOA
> OASIS TC'" <ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org>; <richard.manning@sun.com>;
> <discuss@jxta.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:08 AM
> Subject: RE: [ebsoa] events and agents as defined in an ebSOA
>
>
>>I have been looking at JXTA as a middleware peering discovery management
>> mechanism for Asterisk the open source IP PBX. JXTA is available from
>> Verizon and I have heard that Telenor and some other northern European
>> telcos have incorporated a security model on top of JXTA.  Anybody know
>> of
>> these links.
>>
>> I don't know why we got off on the discussion of the implementation
>> language. We should just be sending a declarative logic description of
>> the
>> service contract(policy and contract-- BPSS 3.0?) (XML? Or OWL?) to the
>> agent ecosystem.  I think this is where the FERA CPIM comes into play.
>>
>> Verizon JXTA service for $14.95 a month.
>> http://newscenter.verizon.com/kit/iobi/network.vtml
>> http://newscenter.verizon.com/kit/iobi/profeatures.vtml
>> http://newscenter.verizon.com/kit/iobi/enterprise.vtml
>>
>> You can provide the same services and epr functionality on Asterisk IP
>> PBX
>> offering enterprise level email with collaboration and federation
>> support
>> over VOIP with team specific collaboration presence, discovery, and role
>> based availability.  Eventually they will figure out how to add services
>> on
>> top of this generic infrastructure service.  Maybe they will look to
>> ebSOA????
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: john c hardin [mailto:johnchardin@comcast.net]
>> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 2:46 PM
>> To: David Webber (XML)
>> Cc: john@crossconnections.ws; Dan Pattyn;
>> vasco.drecun@cpd-associates.com;
>> Goran Zugic; Dale Castle; ebSOA OASIS TC; richard.manning@sun.com;
>> discuss@jxta.org
>> Subject: Re: [ebsoa] events and agents as defined in an ebSOA
>>
>> Understood David, thank you. I was suggesting that we use applicable
>> universal
>> "concepts" from the JXTA projects, not the actual implementation.
>> Obviously,
>>
>> JXTA could be implemented as an agent framework if the implementer chose
>> to
>> do so.
>>
>> I just wanted to make sure that we get a well-rounded picture of agent
>> concepts.
>>
>> David Webber (XML) wrote:
>>> John,
>>>
>>> The caveat I have is simple - the design of ebSOA should be
>>> implementation
>>> language
>>> neutral.
>>>
>>> That is the whole point behind the BCM linking and switching - its
>>> based
>> on
>>> classical
>>> declarative logic processing - and can be expressed as XML structures -
>> that
>>> can
>>> then be read and processed by any agent engine.
>>>
>>> There are literally 100 different agent engines out there - all with
>>> their
>>> own
>>> proprietary syntan and API - (even if they are written in Java - or
>>> maybe
>>> especially
>>> if they are written in Java!).
>>>
>>> What the world does not have is a common method of integrating *all*
>> these.
>>> That I believe is where traditionally OASIS can look to make a
>>> significant
>>> contribution...
>>>
>>> DW
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "john c hardin" <johnchardin@comcast.net>
>>> To: <john@crossconnections.ws>
>>> Cc: "Dan Pattyn" <danpattyn@austin.rr.com>; "David RR Webber"
>>> <david@drrw.info>; <vasco.drecun@cpd-associates.com>; "Goran Zugic"
>>> <gzugic@ebxmlsoft.com>; "Dale Castle" <dcastle@ebxmlsoft.com>; "ebSOA
>> OASIS
>>> TC" <ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org>; <richard.manning@sun.com>;
>>> <discuss@jxta.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 2:48 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ebsoa] events and agents as defined in an ebSOA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Richard Manning from Sun Microsystems presented on JXTA at the 2004
>>>
>>> Symposium.
>>>
>>>>Slides are found at:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/slides/manning.pdf
>>>>
>>>>john c hardin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I would like to start a conversation on the list re: the agent
>>>>>architecture, as proposed in the Federated Enterprise Reference
>>>>>Architecture approach.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks to Goran, Vasco and the ebXMLsoft team for creating the
>>>>>presentation attached, and to David Webber and Dan Pattyn for pointing
>>>>>me to the BCM material.
>>>>>
>>>>>I think that there are several inputs that we can include to round out
>>>>>the ideas of a non-intrusive, event-driven agent model. Opinions are
>>>>>requested from the group on these, and preferences for how to specify
>>>>>the agent mechanisms using a combination of the approaches here:
>>>>>
>>>>>- The Agent Framework is described in the attached BCM / FERA
>>>>>presentation. There is a lot of good material here, however, we need
>>>>> to
>>>>>make sure that we are re-using stable OASIS specs where possible. I
>>>>>would like to map the specifications mentioned in the presentation to
>>>>>the existing specs.
>>>>>
>>>>>- The BCM Linking and Switching as a mechanism to bind to the agent
>>>>>framework
>>>>>
>>>>>- Possibly including JXTA concepts, where possible, as they describe
>>>>>peering between components and applications.
>>>>>http://www.jxta.org/JXTAFAQ.html
>>>>>
>>>>>- Complex Event Processing, using the concepts outlined by David
>>>>>Luckham: From http://www.complexevents.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging technology for building
>>>>>and managing information systems including:
>>>>>
>>>>>    * Business Activity Monitoring
>>>>>    * Business Process Management
>>>>>    * Enterprise Application Integration
>>>>>    * Event-Driven Architectures
>>>>>    * Application Servers and Middleware
>>>>>    * Network and Systems Security
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>~~~~~~~~~
>>>>john c hardin
>>>>Chair, OASIS ebSOA Technical Committee
>>>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ebsoa
>>>>313.279.1377 new *VONAGE* number
>>>>mailto:john@crossconnections.ws
>>>>
>>>>"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of
>>>> a
>>>
>>> global
>>>
>>>>village."
>>>>
>>>>     Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~
>> john c hardin
>> Chair, OASIS ebSOA Technical Committee
>> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ebsoa
>> 313.279.1377 new *VONAGE* number
>> mailto:john@crossconnections.ws
>>
>> "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of
>> a
>> global
>> village."
>>
>>     Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
>>
>>
>
>


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