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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Opaqueness and Transactions


WS-Transaction is also an interesting read on the subject (very concrete 
however)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-transaction.asp

Duane

Mark Little wrote:

> Hi Wesley. Just a quick question: why the term "transaction" to 
> describe what you have? I'm just a little worried that that term is 
> severely overloaded in general, and definitely in the context of SOA 
> and Web Services.
>
> Mark.
>
>
> McGregor.Wesley@tbs-sct.gc.ca wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like clarification on the following items if possible:
>>
>> Opaqueness
>>
>> I believe there are degrees of opaqueness. If a service interface 
>> allows JAVA classes as a parameter to the actual call, one definitely 
>> knows that the service supports JAVA at some level, implying the 
>> consumer has some knowledge about the internals of the service (not 
>> much but some). The service is not completely opaque.
>>
>> If the service only allowed XML as incoming data and object 
>> constructs, then the parser of choice could be in any language or any 
>> other combination of service calls.  I would then say the service is 
>> more opaque.
>>
>> Proposal: There are degrees of opaqueness within the SOA RM and we 
>> need to define them.
>>
>> Transactions
>>
>> If a service is a combination service, example, service A is composed 
>> of service B and C, are we going to describe the method by which B 
>> and C asynchronous responses are delivered to the appropriate 
>> reception point within service A?
>> Proposal: We need to describe by what method or model we support 
>> service composition at run-time.
>>
>>
>> All comments welcome especially by those who have not said much so far!
>>
>> Enjoy your face to face,
>>
>> Wes
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:     Ken Laskey [mailto:klaskey@mitre.org] Sent:    April 20, 
>> 2005 4:16 PM
>> To:    Duane Nickull; SOA-RM
>> Subject:    Re: [soa-rm] service composition scenarios
>>
>> Duane,
>>
>> I agree with your analysis.  If there is a reason to know details of 
>> what the service is doing, e.g. a language translation is needed as 
>> part of what the composite service will do and the user wants to make 
>> sure a certain class of translation engines is used, then this 
>> information should be part of the service description/metadata and 
>> there may be rules/policy to evaluate for the user to make sure the 
>> composite server is appropriate.  Constructing an orchestrated 
>> composite service may be done through another service, but such a 
>> service will be like any other to the RM.  However, the example does 
>> indicate there may be a need for specific metadata and rules/policy 
>> capability and this may or may not go beyond the idea of a generic 
>> service.  (Or, we may say that an SOA requires certain instances of a 
>> generic service be present.)
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> At 03:54 PM 4/20/2005, Duane Nickull wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> TC:
>>>
>>> Although this may not be part of the core RM, this is probably an 
>>> interesting discussion to have.  The concept of service composition 
>>> has been raised a few times on the list.  I wanted to state a few 
>>> observations about this concept.  Please see attached diagram for 
>>> details.
>>>
>>> 1. Services are opaque by nature.  That means that the service 
>>> consumer cannot see anything beyond the interface (service 
>>> interface) it uses.
>>> If one service is actually aggregating two other services, the 
>>> service consumer cannot and should not know this.  From a service 
>>> consumers viewpoint, a service is merely an agent or interface that 
>>> offer some function(s).  Whether those functions are mapped to a set 
>>> of classes in some native language or another service is not 
>>> important or relevant (other than the service metadata stating what 
>>> invoking the service means or does)
>>>
>>> 2. The service function (for service A) is described in the service 
>>> description specific to that service.  If completing the function 
>>> depends on two or more serial or parallel paths of execution 
>>> successfully completing behind the service interface (like calling 
>>> services B and C) within a certain time frame, that is not relevant 
>>> to state in the service description for service A.  The service 
>>> consumer is only concerned with the service's ultimate success or 
>>> failure.  Mapping the functionality to success and failure is the 
>>> responsibility of the service provider.
>>>
>>> Do you agree with this?  This supports the notion of opaqueness.
>>>
>>> 3. # 1 and # 2 above are mandatory to comply with a services 
>>> autonomous nature as described in the W3C WSA and subsequent 
>>> services architectures.  A service alone must determine whether the 
>>> service succeeds or fails.  If a service consumer can see any 
>>> specifics behind the service, this violates several of the core 
>>> principles of SOA.  If visibility beyond the offered service is 
>>> required, then the service does nor meet the demand of the service 
>>> consumer.  Accordingly, the service provider and consumer should 
>>> discuss and re engineer.
>>>
>>> When implementing, more complex patterns of service invocation can 
>>> be facilitated while keeping these three axioms.  If a transaction 
>>> sequence is needed, a service interface can offer two services - a 
>>> put() and a commit().
>>>
>>> Duane
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> ***********
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>>> http://www.adobe.com
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>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>      
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>>
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