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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] [Your Feedback, Please] FW: [soa-demo] RE: [soa-forum] SOA-Demo Glossary / OASIS SOA-RMCommittee Draft
The e-mail below is from the listserv for the in-process SOA demo within the US Federal SOA CoP, which several of us participate in. I suggested on a recent call that our spec's terminology be used as a starting point in the demo and related conversations - below the demo lead (Cory Casanave) lists his observations regarding potential usage of our terminology.
Please feel free to provide feedback on this to our TC list, as it is regarding how our spec is potentially used. Let me know especially if you disagree with any of his observations, and I can pass those differences back to him.
Thanks,
Joe
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
700 13th St. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
O: 202-508-6514
C: 202-251-0731
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
From: soa-demo-bounces@colab.cim3.net [ mailto:soa-demo-bounces@colab.cim3.net] On Behalf Of Cory Casanave
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 1:37 PM
To: soa-demo@colab.cim3.net
Subject: [soa-demo] RE: [soa-forum] SOA-Demo Glossary / OASIS SOA-RMCommittee Draft
Thanks Joe,
Agree we need to use our terms consistently and in-line with evolving industry use (figuring out and agreeing on what that is may be the challenge)
I looked over the Glossary of the Oasis-RM, there is good match but a bit of a theme difference in that the Oasis document is very focused on “a service” where we tend to be more focused on an architecture of a set of services in a community.
I would relate the Oasis-RM terms to the terms in the document as follows;
{SOA} Service
[Oasis-RM] The means by which the needs of a consumer are brought together with the capabilities
a provider. See Section 3.1.
[Demo] Corresponds to “Service Interaction” in the document
[Suggestion] Ok with “service” but would prefer a qualification to avoid confusion with the generic term and use in the FEA. Perhaps we should use “SOA Service”.
{SOA} Service Interface
[Oasis-RM] The means by which the underlying capabilities of a service are accessed.
[Demo] Same
{SOA} Capability
[Oasis-RM] A real-world effect that a service provider is able to provide to a service consumer.
[Suggestion] A real world effect that an actor can provide to a community by playing a role in that community
{SOA} Role
[Oasis-RM] Not Specified
[Suggestion] The responsibilities and behavior of an actor in a community that is realized, in part, by providing and/or using services. The role is specified in terms of responsibilities, capabilities and interactions.
{SOA} Community
[Suggestion] A collection of actors that collectively realize business value by providing and/or using services. The community is specified by the purpose of the community and the roles various actors may play in realizing that purpose. Note that a community can be very large or as small as 2 actors.
Other sources to be considered;
[RM-ODP] The basic concepts of RM-ODP Enterprise
language are object, role, community, objective, behavior and action. An
object is a model of an entity, either an entity of the system to be specified or
an entity of the system environment. Objects can be grouped to form a
community. In that case, they exhibit the behavior needed to realize the
objective of the community. By doing this, they fulfill roles of the
community since a role identifies a behavior. This is a set of actions with
constraints on when they appear. Actions can be interactions between
several objects or internal actions. Objects can model people, organizations or systems.
Other comments on the Glossary (not currently in demo, but may be)
Behavior Model
[Oasis-RM] The characterization of (and responses to, and temporal dependencies between) the
actions on a service.
[Suggestion] The characterization of (and responses to, and temporal dependencies between) the
actions of an actor on or in response to a set of services
From: soa-forum-bounces@colab.cim3.net [ mailto:soa-forum-bounces@colab.cim3.net] On Behalf Of Chiusano Joseph
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:22 PM
To: Service-Oriented Architecture CoP
Subject: [soa-forum] OASIS SOA-RM Committee Draft
As discussed on our call today, I am sending out this spec for our reference in terminology and other areas.
Joe
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
700 13th St. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
O: 202-508-6514
C: 202-251-0731
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
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