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Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Question of Introduction Consistency


You are right. We should pick a different word here.
Frank
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On Apr 2, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Michael Stiefel wrote:

> The Introduction to the "Goals, Critical Success Factors and  
> Requirements starts out::
>
> "A reference architecture is like an abstract machine. It is built  
> to realize some function and it, in turn, relies on a set of  
> underlying capabilites that must be present for it to perform. In  
> the case of the SOA RA, its purpose is to enable a system to be a  
> Service Oriented Architecture. The underlying capabilities are the  
> particular technologies that are used to realize the SOA; in  
> particular technology choices such as Web Service technologies,  
> implementation technologies are not part of an abstract RA. "
>
> Are we not using the word capability here in a way that is  
> different from the use of the term in the RM? Here we seem to be  
> using the word capability to mean underlying technologies. In the  
> RM we used the term to indicated the underlying functionality that  
> is exposed through the SOA.
>
> Michael
>
>



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