Re: [soa-rm-ra] minimum number of messaging patterns

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Ken,

Nice to know as I contemplate EDXL Situation Reporting, which is due 
to finish its pre-submission requirements process in the 
DHS-sponsored Practitioners Steering Group and head to Emergency 
Interoperability Consortium (EIC) to get ground through the vendor 
community process, before landing square in our OASIS EM TC lap.

We've already explored reporting in EDXL-Resource Messaging 
(EDXL-RM), which includes reporting and EDXL Hospital AVailability 
Exchange (EDXL-HAVE), which is totally reporting. However, SitReps is 
another kettle of fish. Sigh. It will be interesting to see how much 
of the OODA loop they've picked up from Air Force Colonel John Boyd's 
work. Emergency Management actually has a lot of similarity to 
dogfights, except the enemy can often be your own infrastructure. 
However, you still have to Observe, Orient, Decide and Act hopefully 
before the hurricane or tsunami comes knocking.

Fortunately, I didn't expect and didn't want to tackle that level 
complexity in the RA, yet. ;-) However, SOA should be very helpful in 
taking Critical Success Factor Analysis and applying it to flexible 
Decision Support at least at a Rule of Thumb Heuristic level.

Cheers,
Rex

At 11:08 AM -0500 2/1/09, Ken Laskey wrote:
>We had a long discussion eons ago about what messaging patterns to 
>include and decided that the minimum was two: one-way and 
>request-response.
>
>In doing some background work for a new MITRE course, I ran across 
>the Axis2 architecture guide and, lo and behold, they came to the 
>same conclusion. 
> See <http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_0/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html#bmClientAPI>http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_0/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html#bmClientAPI.
>
>This may be old news now but I thought I'd pass it along.
>
>Ken
>
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