FW: [soa-forum] Definition of SOA from OMG

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

From the US Federal SOA CoP list: OMG's new definition of SOA. May perhaps influence our RA work.

 

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From: soa-forum-bounces@colab.cim3.net [mailto:soa-forum-bounces@colab.cim3.net] On Behalf Of Cory Casanave
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:31 PM
To: 'Service-Oriented Architecture CoP'
Subject: [soa-forum] Definition of SOA from OMG

As an update from the OMG meeting last week, the SOA SIG adopted the following definition of SOA;

 

Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural style for a community of providers and consumers of services to achieve mutual value, that:

• Allows participants in the communities to work together with minimal co-dependence or technology dependence
• Specifies the contracts to which organizations, people and technologies must adhere in order to participate in the community
• Provides for business value and business processes to be realized by the community
• Allows for a variety of technology to be used to facilitate interactions within the community

 

 

The corresponding definition of service has not yet been finalized but the sense of the group is that there would be both a business/domain centric notion of service as well as an interaction focused definition.

 

In both cases this seems to fit well with the notion of SOA that is evolving in this group and in the SOA Demo.

 

Regards,

Cory Casanave