Re: [soa-rm-ra] Organization of Wiki pages & View/Viewpoint Specs

[Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@mac.com>]

Jeff:
  I agree that there is some confusion in the Service as Business vs  
Business via Service. I think that I prefer the latter personally :)
  I am fine with adding view to the links.

  But we did, at one point, have a hesitation about the whole views/ 
viewpoints structure. There are issues with models that span more  
than one view, and models that are referenced by more than one view,  
and of course, views that have multiple models.

  So, organizing the document hierarchically from the views down may  
not be the best way of organizing the architecture. An alternative  
would be to have a models section and a views section: the views  
section would reference and explicate the models.

  2 cents?

Frank

On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey A. Estefan wrote:

> Frank,
>
> I see you've updated TheArchitecture Wiki centered around three  
> principal views and that's good.  I would suggest the following and  
> I've updated the Wiki in some cases accordingly.
> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/TheArchitecture
>
> 1. That we consistently use the adopted view name at various  
> levels, for example, in some cases we use "Service as Business  
> View" and in others "Business via Services".  I prefer the former  
> but in any event, we need to be consistent.
>
> 2. Remember that a view is comprised of one or more models.   
> Therefore, I have updated the link names under TheArchitecture to  
> reflect the "View" (e.g., Realizing Service Oriented Architecture  
> View) link and if you click that link you will see the ANSI/IEEE  
> 1471-2000 required meta-description elements at the top of the page  
> followed by links to the models that comprise that view.  You will  
> see I added the word "Model" to those links (or sections).  Note  
> that viewpoint specifications need to be developed and they don't  
> below in the view description.  That is the purpose of my comment  
> block at the top of the page.
> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/TheArchitecture/ServiceView
>
> 3. We should organize the rest of the links accordingly (and of  
> course ultimately reflect this in the published RA document) and  
> update the names of the Wiki links to accurately represent the view  
> names.  Right now, they don't.
>
> 4. We have a link to a Views/Viewpoints section as part of the  
> Introduction and that is fine.  I will need to update the content  
> at some point but this is where we will want to add our three  
> Viewpoint specifications.  You can see the required elements of the  
> viewpoint specs and they are very straightforward.  Once we've  
> captured the stakeholders and stakeholder concerns for each  
> viewpoint, it's a piece of cake to develop the viewpoint specs.
>
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