Re: [soa-rm] Good Recent SOA Piece:"Managing an XML Data Model In Your SOA - Best Practices"

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Ken:

Excellent thoughts!  I would like to propose to the editor who is doing 
the data model section to use this, especially the last sentence about 
<end of rant>

Duane

Ken Laskey wrote:

> The critical line in this article is
>
> This article does not discuss how to integrate data models.
>
> Its premise is the tried (and usually failed) that if we all get into 
> a room and be reasonable we can all find a common vocabulary to map 
> to. I could go on about when that works and when that doesn't (see my 
> OASIS Symposium presentation for more) but if that is the basis of 
> SOA, then it will go no further than any other integration paradigm. 
> The driving question is how do you create a system (service?) to do 
> semantic negotiation between diverse vocabularies in a way that is (1) 
> visible, (2) reusable, and (3) allows you to use what you know (or can 
> find) in ways that enables you to do more with little or no effort.
>
> The SOA RM will not specify how this is done but it must also not 
> codify an interchange vocabulary paradigm that will not scale.
>
> End of rant:-)
>
> Ken
>
>
> On May 6, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
>     Forwarding a good recent SOA piece[1] for those interested in
>     reading it. Covers the notion of an integrated data model as a
>     foundational concept; also presents a 6-layer approach to SOA
>     (about mid-article).
>      
>     Joe
>      
>     [1] http://www.tdan.com/i032ht02.htm
>      
>
>     Joseph Chiusano
>
>     Booz Allen Hamilton
>
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>      
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