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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?


John
(aka "Meggan".  Hey - how you dress in private is none of our business  ;-)

Just joking!!

This is a good question.

The registry is one way that one could store semantics however semantics 
are not required to be explicit and there are other models for sharing 
information beside registry.  At the abstract level it represents a 
facet of the model where the information available is meaningful.  
Therefore, a registry will not be in the reference model as a normative, 
core element.

We decided to add a non normative section to explain some of these 
manifestations.  How one goes from "Data Model" to Messages, 
Availability to Registry, Policy to on the wire security etc.

It would be great if you could hook up with the person with this section 
and offer proof reading services.  Value your input.

Duane




meggan hardin wrote:

> My assumptions (so far) about the central metadata concepts have been 
> that the reg/rep holds this data. Are we delving to the level of 
> defining specific types of resources / components that should be 
> included in a major component such as the reg/rep? I think that the 
> concept of storing semantic metadata as an independent integration 
> reference point is important enough to be included in the RM.
>
> FWIW - Contivo terms the semantic metadata repository the "enterprise 
> vocabulary"...
>
> john
>
> Smith, Martin wrote:
>
>> Violent agreement.
>>  
>> martin
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Schuldt, Ron L [mailto:ron.l.schuldt@lmco.com]
>> Sent: Fri 4/29/2005 6:39 PM
>> To: Smith, Martin; Sharma, Sameer; Duane Nickull; 
>> john@crossconnections.ws
>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sameer will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that his intent was
>> to include the notion of central metadata within a "Reference
>> Architecture" not the Reference Model. Appendix B is the place where
>> example use cases would be defined. I suspect that Sameer might be
>> willing to submit an example use case.
>>
>> Ron Schuldt
>> Senior Staff Systems Architect
>> Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
>> 11757 W. Ken Caryl Ave.
>> #F521 Mail Point DC5694
>> Littleton, CO 80127
>> 303-977-1414
>> ron.l.schuldt@lmco.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Smith, Martin [mailto:Martin.Smith@DHS.GOV]
>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:19 PM
>> To: Sharma, Sameer; Duane Nickull; john@crossconnections.ws
>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>
>>
>> Sameer - -
>>
>> Let me practice being Matt <g>:
>>
>> The term " 'central' metadata" presumes a specific implementation
>> strategy and should not be in the RM.  Perhaps "metadata associated with
>> the service should be available in the environment."  Now in my example
>> SOA for Appendix B, I'll probably show a UDDI services directory, or
>> maybe a combo registry/repository that can in fact store all the
>> description metadata.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sharma, Sameer [mailto:sameer.sharma@lmco.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 2:16 PM
>> To: Smith, Martin; Duane Nickull; john@crossconnections.ws
>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>
>>
>> My feeling is that some of what you are alluding to might be covered by
>> UDDI,
>> however as is happening in an instance of SOA deployment that I am
>> involved
>> in - UDDI by itself is not going to be sufficient to express all the
>> metadata
>> that is needed for a client to successfully and contextually interpret
>> all
>> that a Web Service does.
>>
>> My attempted solution is to capture this additional metadata by
>> leveraging
>> central metadata services of my enterprise. I guess what I am saying is
>> that
>> the concept of "central metadata" might be a valid candidate as a
>> component of
>> the Reference Architecture we are considering.
>>
>> Since I was unable to participate in the F2F, (due to some last minute
>> commitments that I got called into), if this topic was discussed, please
>> accept my apologies for bringing it up again.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> L
>>   Sameer Sharma
>>     Principal Applications Architect
>>     Lockheed Martin Corporation
>>     Chief Technology Office (CTO)
>>     12506 Lake Underhill Road - MP 166
>>     Orlando, FL-32825
>>     Tel: (407) 306 5640
>>     Fax:(407) 306 1392
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Smith, Martin [mailto:Martin.Smith@DHS.GOV]
>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 1:38 PM
>> To: Duane Nickull; john@crossconnections.ws
>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>
>> Folks - -
>>
>> On my way home from N'awlins Wed night, I had a thought on this
>> discussion.
>>
>> I think we expect services in an SOA to be independent of the kind of
>> shared contextual knowledge we usually presume within a local computing
>> environment. We expect that the requesting service will be able to
>> obtain all the info it needs to use the responding service successfully
>> by processing the responding service's description metadata.  I do think
>> this is a core characteristic of SOA services.
>>
>> I'm not suggesting we reinstate the use of the word "autonomous" as a
>> handle for this concept since it demonstrably caused confusion at the
>> f2f.  If we need a handle, perhaps "self-sufficient" or
>> "self-documenting" or "introspective" (naaah - forget that one.)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duane Nickull [mailto:dnickull@adobe.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:43 PM
>> To: john@crossconnections.ws
>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>
>> We discussed and the submitter withdrew the submission pending
>> clarification on exactly what is meant by Autonomous nature WRT
>> services.  It may be re-submitted and probably will however we do not
>> have consensus on it at present.
>>
>> Duane
>>
>> john c hardin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Duane and SOA-RM group -
>>> Can someone enlighten the members of the eb-soa group regarding a
>>> description of Autonomous Services? Any resulting conversations from
>>> the meetings this week, on the subject of Autonomous Services would be
>>
>>
>>
>>> good also.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> john
>>>
>>
>>
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