Re: [soa-rm] OASIS SOA-EERP Whitepaper

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I'm reviewing all of the SOA-EERP workproducts in the Public Review in 
cluding the White Paper (except schemas and examples--I'll vet the 
schemas separately, but not the examples). I will copy the TC with my 
final review email. It'll probably be tomorrow morning before I finish. 
I'm about half-way through now.

Cheers,
Rex

Bashioum, Christopher D wrote:
>
> Has anyone else from the SOA RM TC reviewed the OASIS SOA-EERP whitepaper
>
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-eerp/whitepaper/EERP-Model-UseCase-WhitePaper-cd03.pdf 
>
>
> They reference the RM, however, there is one paragraph that caught my 
> attention:
>
> */Services /*are performed by people, machines, and hardware/software 
> applications, and represented by SOA services. The qualities of a 
> business service are expressed by means of the Business Quality of 
> Service (bQoS) specification. The nature of bQoS varies across 
> industries and services.
>
> The RM would change this to
>
> */Capabilities /*are performed by people, machines, and 
> hardware/software applications, and represented by SOA services. The 
> qualities of a business service are expressed by means of the Business 
> Quality of Service (bQoS) specification. The nature of bQoS varies 
> across industries and services.
>
> I think we may need to do something about addressing the idea of a 
> capability that is intended for “others”, i.e., a business service – 
> which is enabled in Software by a SOA service in front of a 
> capability. We’ve talked about it, but I think a whitepaper on this 
> will be useful.
>
> Note that such a whitepaper would also go a long way towards helping 
> to navigate the SOA Standards landscape, as I think the main issue 
> between the various SDOs on SOA is about using the term “service” to 
> mean “functionality intended for others” vs. as an IT artifact that 
> enables access to such funtionality (which is the RM view).
>
> Thoughts?
>

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