Re: [soa-rm-ra] Updated Visual Model for Service Description

[Danny Thornton <danny_thornton2@yahoo.com>]

This is off topic from federations, but JAXR is
implemented for Sun's Service Registry.  Sun's Service
Registry is one registry we are using for the Feb demo
that Rex mentioned.  I have that up and going at:

http://www.integratedresponseservices.net:6480/soar

Everything you can do with JAXR as a client app you
can do through the Registry web console.

I am now trying to figure out how our RA meta-model
fits into the ebXML RIM model which is what is
referenced in section 4 of the JAXR document.  If
anyone is interested, here is a link to the 3.0
version of the ebXML RIM document:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/regrep/v3.0/specs/regrep-rim-3.0-os.pdf

The ebXML Registry Information Model does define a
federation object but that is to federate an entire
registry with another registry.  I think federation at
this level is too course grained to solve a lot of the
cross ownership boundary issues that will be common to
the majority of people who jump into a SOA-ecosystem. 
There are multiple granularity levels that the
federation problem can be approached from.   

Federation is an important concept and I wanted to get
other input about its placement in relation to our RA
Service Description.

Danny
 
--- "Jeffrey A. Estefan"
<jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Danny,
> 
> Where are you going with this federation business???
> 
> Are you proposing something along the lines of the
> Federated Enterprise 
> Reference Architecture (FERA) model?
> 
>
http://xml.coverpages.org/SemantionSOA-Runtime200509.pdf
> 
> (See Section 3.0)
> 
> There was a big play in the ebXML world on this
> (see, e.g., 
> http://www.ebxmlsoft.com/papers/ebxml-fera.pdf) and
> I saw it go nowhere when 
> I attended the OASIS Symposium up in San Francisco a
> few years ago.  There 
> were briefings from the ebSOA TC folks and, again,
> it has gone absolutely 
> nowhere.  In fact, I have not seen it referenced
> anywhere outside this 
> community or even the analyst community.
> 
> I'm really worried that once again, we're getting
> distracted and we NEED TO 
> FINISH THE RA!!!!!!  Our work has gone one far too
> long in my opinion.  We 
> need to stay focused as a razor.
> 
> If you're looking to build out a tool for your
> registry/repository, then you 
> should leverage the various service metadata
> information models (IMs) out 
> there.  The IM described in JSR 93 (JAXR) is one of
> the best I've seen.  And 
> it supports both UDDI and ebXML standards.  I've
> attached a copy of the 
> original spec.  Check out Section 4 and in
> particular, Fig. 11, which 
> provides a UML class diagram depicting the IM.
> 
> Cheers...
> 
>  - Jeff E.
> 
> >
---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave
> the OASIS TC that
> generates this mail.  You may a link to this group
> and all your TCs in OASIS
> at:
>
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php



__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com