Re: [soa-rm] SOA System

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Don:

Thanks - I was never under the impression that you were wanting to 
change the charter.  Appendix B is the proper place for a lot of the 
stuff Joseph was talking about and I want to thank you again for taking 
it on as a task. 

I am also happy that people are willing to ask very basic, difficult and 
pragmatic questions like you did.  It shows me that the members of this 
TC are truly on a quest for the truth, not affected by marketing buzz.  
We have a lot of hard work ahead and we are glad to have you in the TC..

Cheers!

Duane

Don Flinn wrote:

>Duane
>
>IMO the TC including myself are convinced that an SOA is different from
>previous distributed system, e.g. CORBA, OO, IBD, CBA etc.  The question
>that I was raising was: Are we abstracting away or ignoring those
>qualities that make an SOA different from previous distributed systems?
>(Note: I peeked ahead at some of your mail.  There is no intent by
>myself or anyone, I believe, to change the charter.  It's what we signed
>up to do and want to do to the best of our ability.)  
>
>The core of my concern is that we have not delineated, or at least
>agreed on, the essential qualities that make an SOA different from the
>previous distributed models so that we can assure ourselves that our
>reference model contains these essential qualities.  Without including
>an abstraction of these qualities we don't satisfy our requirement of
>developing a reference model that architects can use to develop
>architectural specifications for an *SOA*.  
>
>Some self-promotion :-)  I tried to approach this in Appendix B, in an
>non-normative way. 
>
>Don
>
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