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Subject: RE: OASIS SOA-EERP Whitepaper
I don’t think that is
correct. A capability addresses a need –
it is a *potential* to perform a service - the need is satisfied by
using the capability: the service. Capabilities don’t “perform”
anything, they just “are”. The performance of a service –
delivering a real world effect – depends on there being a capability but
is not the same thing. Cheers, Peter From: Bashioum, Christopher D
[mailto:cbashioum@mitre.org] 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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