Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer"

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

That's a bit narrow, but then, I don't know how specific or inclusive 
we need to be, nor whether we want to consider specifying that the 
role of "service consumer" applies only during the invocation, nor 
whether we might want to consider the role "consumer service" as an 
intermediary between the service provider and the service consumer 
where numerous providers could be aggregated into a broker for a 
particular domain, such as human resources or supply chain management.

Ciao,
Rex

At 12:29 AM -0700 4/7/05, Thomas Erl wrote:
>Now that we've decided on the term "service consumer" it may be 
>useful to formally define it. The term "consumer" is used by the 
>WS-I Basic Profile wherein it is simply defined as "Software that 
>invokes an instance."
>
>Thomas


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