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Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better "Componentization"
Matt - I am not sure what point you are trying to
make by this? I agree with your premise of a bottom up effort, as
this was one of the operating assumptions that was made from the
beginning.
But, I am confident it is the business
environment that is independent from the reference model.
TM From: Matt MacKenzie [mailto:mattm@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:58 AM To: Sally St. Amand; frank.mccabe@us.fujitsu.com Cc: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better "Componentization" Sally,
A reference model actually needs to be a bottom up effort. We leave the ever so popular “top-down” approach to folks like ebSOA J
We’re creating a vocabulary and general understanding of what I hope we can call a discipline of computer science in the future. This means, we need a durable reference model that is not dependent on the current business environment.
-matt
From: Sally St.
Amand [mailto:sallystamand@yahoo.com]
Frank
This is in response to your request on last week’s conference call, if anyone has comments speak now. I also think that the recent comments on clarifying sections are a reflection of my issues with the specification.
I agree with the majority of points made/described in ver 10. My issues are with what is not in this draft. Based on Fig 1 the Refe! rence Model is guided by Reference Architectures, Concrete Architectures, Profile & Related Models. They in turn account for requirements, motivation & goals. This is creating a Reference Model from the bottom up. I believe a Reference Model should reflect a top down approach.
The Reference Model needs to reflect the environment, the strategy and the priorities of the business/mission/collaboration. This will impact the construction of services. A service is a business task or activity that is realized through technology. The draft does a good job of describing how that realization happens. But it doesn’t provide a sufficient link between processes and services. The draft makes the point that the central focus of! SOA is the task of business function—getting something done. A business process is made up of tasks and activities to achieve a goal (getting something done). The concept of creating the service from the tasks and activities in a process is important. For example, where on the continuum of fine grained to coarse grained should a particular service be; this will affect interaction, reusability. The relationship between processes and services needs to be in the Reference Model.
While I saw that there is a note saying the glossary is still in flux, since one of the objective of the Reference Model is a vocabulary, having less in the glossary might be a better option. Is semantic integration a guiding principle of SOA?
With respect to conformance there needs to be business results. That is an SOA should provide demonstrable mission accomplishments, e.g. ROI, match a competitors distribution channel. SOA is not a technology. Conformance should provide operational accomplishments, these should be measurable.
Sally
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