Re: [soa-rm] [issue:structure] draft 07, sect 2, line 201, Figure 2-1

[Michael Stiefel <development@reliablesoftware.com>]

Would going from right to left or left to right remove any associations of 
top and bottom as more natural or more fundamental?

Have you ever looked at a globe with the Southern Hemisphere at the top? To 
most of us that live in the Northern Hemisphere it looks wrong, but of 
course, from the point of view of outer space either pole of the globe 
could be on top.

I like the fact that semantics will be explained on the side.

Michael


At 02:37 PM 5/20/2005, Duane Nickull wrote:
>Here is a rendering based on Greg's diagram that accounts for all the 
>comments below.
>
>- I placed Metadata as a bracket inside the "service description" box.
>- Semantics will have to be explained using text accompanying this diagram 
>to state that they are omnipresent.
>- turned the stack upside down so service is at the bottom.  To me, it 
>seemed more intuitive that the thing that is core is at the bottom and the 
>other items are built out (up??) from it.  Comments?
>- used the UML dependency arrow as the convention between service and 
>service description to denote that a SD should not exist without a service.
>- redrew the line between metadata and policy / contract to connect with 
>the outer container of "constraints"
>- removed the words "enables discoverability" from the association.
>
>If we use this, we should probably build an appendix containing clear and 
>concise rules about how to interpret this mind map since it borrows 
>association conventions from UML and mixes them together with other 
>conventions.
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>Comments?
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>Duane
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