Re: [soa-rm] Fwd: High-Level Graphic Defn of SOA

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Ken,

I've been using slide 8 of this outline deck for long enough that it 
seems like forever. Feel free to use it with a citation. It really 
needs its complement, which details reusability of modular 
components, but I didn't include that in this particular slide deck. 
This deck is what I presented to the NCOIC Services Working Group 
this morning. If anyone doesn't know,  NCOIC stands for Net-Centric 
Operations Industry Consortium.

This deck is getting started on the ER pattern that will be one of 
three included, but not yet scheduled for the 7th SOA for 
E-Government Conference at MITRE http://federalsoa.wik.is/ I'll be 
doing this remotely, unless a sponsor turns up. This is one I'd 
actually like to attend in person, but beggars can't be choosers. 
I'll probably work on getting a DHS-sponsored OASIS EM TC 
face-to-face to kick off the EDXL Situation Reporting effort in this 
same time frame, but it is such short notice that it seems unlikely 
at best.

However, I will be casting this pattern in the formal NCOIC template 
in considerably more detail. You can see the outline at 
http://networkcentricity.wik.is/Emergency_Response_%2f%2f_Emergency_Management_Pattern 
I will be using the RA, so I'll pass that section by the SC if I get 
it done in time. The Common Alerting Protocol-Integrated Public Alert 
and Warning System Profile in its 60-Day Public Review is scheduled 
to heat up again next week, and talks with Google about collaborating 
on an EDXL-Hospital AVailability Exchange project or set of projects 
got started yesterday, and the RA plays into that effort as well.

BTW Allen Jones of Boeing, who works on The Open Group SOA efforts is 
a member of the Services WG, and I expect we'll be having more 
conversations moving forward. I mentioned our effort to 
coordinate/align with TOG and OMG.

I am in the midst of reviewing the Design Time Services Integration 
Pattern being worked by Mikael Laby of EADS which provides a model of 
the NCOIC Pattern template. It appears to be a case where we were put 
in contact just in time to avoid duplication of effort and leverage 
our efforts together.

The theme for the SOA-EGov conference is SOA in Cloud Computing, so I 
will be pestering Dave to get permission to use some of his diagrams. 
If it wasn't so much work, this would be sort of exciting, but it iss 
welcom to get so much more mileage out of the work I was already 
doing.

Cheers,
Rex

>OK folks, here's the challenge.  I was just asked for
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>>an accessible graphic illustrating the meaning of SOA
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>Now we've always been graphics challenged but I'm interested to see 
>if there are any favorites out there.  I can't think of anything 
>from the RM or RA work.
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>Ken
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