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Subject: RE: [soa-rm-ra] Service non-definition
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How about make it simple for everyone Service is an implementation of a well-defined business functionality
accessible through a well-defined interface. From: mpoulin@usa.com
[mailto:mpoulin@usa.com] I cannot accept this definition, Peter, sorry. Why would not we
use Ken's expression directly? Here is why I dislike the definition below: 1) service and result are too much different things; service
delivers result like any function, but it is not a result itself.
Service=result is terribly confusing to me! 2) I do not accept that a service
is always a process. I am involved now in a a wide discussion about ACM vs. BPM
- adaptive case management vs. process management - and the common
agreement that we may not call 'process' everything we do because process is
only structured set of actions. Also, both process and actions are 'doing'
while I insist on that a service is a thing, which can 'do'. Going further into
Business SOA, service is a business unit providing business functionality and
delivering the results (and RWE). - Michael -----Original Message----- How does this sound: “A ‘service’ can be variously understood as ‘some result
delivered’ as well as the ‘process’ or indeed the abstract ‘thing’ involved in
delivering that result. Where the term service is used in this document, it is
in the common sense way which may cover any or all of these concepts. Where one
or other explicit senses it intended, and in order to avoid possible ambiguity,
more explicit terms (including Real World Effect, Service Activity, Capability
and System) will be used in line with the definitions in the Reference Model.” I would propose adding this to the end of the second para of section
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