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

[Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>]

I would suggest our user can be either human or machine/software.  For  
the current purposes, I do not believe there is a difference.

Ken

On Apr 7, 2005, at 4:37 AM, Gregory A. Kohring wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> Perhaps one should use a somewhat broader definition which captures
> the human user as well:
>
> Service Consumer: An entity which exploits a service.
>
>
> -- Greg
>
>
> 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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> G.A. Kohring
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