Re: [soa-rm-ra] quick poll on identifier and description

[Danny Thornton <danny_thornton2@yahoo.com>]

Just for informational purposes, I've attached the
ebXML Registry Information Model which shows how
identity was modeled for that standard.  The class
Identifiable is the root class in the model, with
RegistryObject inheriting from Identifiable, and all
but one other object inheriting from RegistryObject.  

Danny

- Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org> wrote:

> Today's discussion talked about description being a
> resource and a  
> resource having an identifier, so description has an
> identifier.
> 
> In the most recent (general) Description diagram
> (sent out in an  
> email 10/16), Resource has a Description and
> Identifiers are a  
> component of Description.
> 
> Which is our preference?
> 
> I'm thinking of something like the following diagram
> 
> 
> where Resource has both a Description and an
> Identifier, the  
> Description of a Resource has a reference to that
> Identifier (so you  
> unambiguously know what is being described), and
> Description being a  
> subclass of Resource thus has its own Identifier.
> (Ignore the ' on  
> Resource and Identifier.)
> 
> Note, a version of this also needs to show up as an
> artifact diagram.
> 
> Your vote?
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
>
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