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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Architectural Scope of Reference Model
Anders: This is a good point we have talked about before. It is really a "contract offer" until such time as it is bilateral. Duane Anders W. Tell wrote: > I would suggesto to qualify the term Contract or better yet to replace > term with other term since in in business and legal domain the contract > involves two or more parties. This in order to avoid confusion. > > Another aspect is the it may be profitable to differentiate between: > > a) technical/functional description of actual characteristics of service > (similar to machine specs) > b) public statement of existence of a) or parts of a) > ( we got this wonderfull machine but we dont offer it yet) > d) public statement of offering or availability of a) or parts of a) > e) agreement between two or more parties involving a) or parts of a) > > > /anders > > > Gregory A. Kohring wrote: > >> OK, here is a slightly different view using UML. In this view >> metadata is the higher level abstraction, while contract is a more >> specialized abstraction. >> >> -- Greg >> >> Duane Nickull wrote: >> >> >>> Francis: >>> >>> Cool! This is perhaps a place where using UML to avoid ambiguity >>> may be >>> good. >>> >>> If I read your diagram, it asserts that "realized as" implies an >>> "abstract-concrete" association. I had viewed that the other concepts >>> are more of a "can be aggregated as part of" association. My >>> observation is that usually the abstract-concrete association is often >>> used for mapping a specific protocol or specification to a concept in a >>> reference model or reference architecture. >>> I guess the question we need to consider is "what is the association >>> between the higher level abstract concept of metadata and specialized >>> metadata concepts?". >>> >>> Anyone care to take a stab at this as a UML class diagram (or answering >>> the question)? >>> >>> Cheers (and beers next week) >>> >>> Duane >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Francis McCabe wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I prefer the following diagram :) >>>> >>>> >>>> Frank >>>> >>>> On Apr 19, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Duane Nickull wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> <Drawing1.png> >>>>> >>>> > > -- *********** Senior Standards Strategist - Adobe Systems, Inc. - http://www.adobe.com Vice Chair - UN/CEFACT Bureau Plenary - http://www.unece.org/cefact/ Adobe Enterprise Developer Resources - http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/developer/main.html ***********
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