Re: [soa-rm] Comment: Section 2.1.1 Service Composition

[Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com>]

See my message in the other thread (... Really An SOA).  I chose the 
wrong thread to respond to, sorry.

-Matt
Duane Nickull wrote:

> I would assert that regardless of whether they knew or talked to each 
> other previously, if a specific service does not meet the needs of a 
> specific consumer, and the consumer wishes to change that, they will 
> need to discuss it (and possibly re-engineer things) to meet their 
> needs if they desire.  This does not assume any previous relationship.
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> Can someone from the editing team please clarify if 2.1.1 is open for 
> comments?  I thought we had agreed that it is not at present.
>
> Duane
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> Chiusano Joseph wrote:
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>> SECTION: 2.1.1 Service Composition
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>> LINE: 198
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>> TEXT: "Accordingly, the service provider and consumer should discuss 
>> and re engineer the service."
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>> COMMENT: This text assumes that there is a relationship between the 
>> service provider and consumer in which they would undertake a 
>> discussion of the design of a service, and collaborate on its 
>> reengineering. This may sometimes be the case, but I would assert 
>> that most often it would not, as (a) the service consumer and 
>> provider may not even have any sort of relationship other than both 
>> being "reachable" from the WWW, and (b) even if so, the service 
>> consumer may not participate in any sort of discussion/reengineering 
>> unless perhaps the service was being created for the service consumer 
>> as part of a project.
>>
>>  
>> Kind Regards,
>> Joseph Chiusano
>> Booz Allen Hamilton
>> Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com <http://www.boozallen.com/>
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