Re: [soa-rm] another possible SOA diagram (revised)

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

For more background on the concept of resources, please read the W3C Web 
Service Architecture TN.  We had many long discussions on this subject 
and that document nicely summarizes the points we were able to agree on.

The fabric word is largely borrowed from the networking world. 

Duane

Ken Laskey wrote:

> The resource is the real thing out there that provides a capability 
> --  in the 07 draft, there is a discussion of data resources vs. 
> processing  resources.  In general, a resource does not have to be 
> service-enabled.   However for SOA, the resource must have (we can 
> continue to debate  this) a service interface that is one of the 
> things published through  the service description, and that service 
> interface is how you connect  the resource to the underlying service 
> infrastructure.  Additionally,  the service infrastructure has to 
> provide certain TBD capabilities and  likely overlaps but is not 
> necessarily the same as what is often termed  an ESB bus.
>
> Ken
>
> On May 23, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Christopher Bashioum wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> Intuitively, I like this one.  One question: how is the resource  
>> different
>> than the service?  Also, for the TC to use, we may be able to 
>> identify  the
>> essential elements with a * and then the other optional elements to  
>> show
>> where they fit (for example, I see basic logging as non-essential, 
>> but  this
>> diagram shows where it fits).
>>
>> The diagram may not show up in the actual RM doc, but it may be 
>> useful  for
>> us as a conceptual model.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken Laskey [mailto:klaskey@mitre.org]
>> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:43 AM
>> To: 'SOA-RM'
>> Subject: [soa-rm] another possible SOA diagram (revised)
>>
>> I played with the ideas in the sketch a bit more.  As noted in the
>> previous email:
>>
>> I would not necessarily advocate it being used instead of the one Duane
>> drew but given I had it, I thought I'd pass it around for comments.
>> The 3D presentation may make it look too concrete but I was looking for
>> a way to show there was something SOA I was building services on and
>> there could be any number of services.  Note a resource could be a
>> registry but even that would be exposed through services and have
>> metadata.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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