RE: [soa-rm] Random Thought: Capability-Oriented Architecture (COA)

["Peter F Brown" <peter@justbrown.net>]

Joe:

I'm not sure I understand why or how this would add anything: SOA is about
*leveraging* capabilities in a particular way; what is the difference
between COA and software architecture generally? Surely (hopefully) all
software is about providing a capability. If it isn't oriented to that goal,
heaven only knows what it is doing...!

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com] 
Sent: 09 January 2006 14:42
To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] Random Thought: Capability-Oriented Architecture (COA)

In reviewing our latest draft, a thought occurred to me - so I thought I'd
send it to the list, not with the intention of starting a thread, but just
to put it out there in general:
 
Given our emphasis on capabilities, I wonder if there could be merit to the
notion of a Capability-Oriented Architecture (COA), that encompasses
services and more. A capability could be comprised of one or more services.
 
This could be a term that implies thinking even broader than services when
architecting solutions.
 
Joe
 
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