Linus Tolke wrote: > Hello Farrikh! > > Exactly what are the differences between MOF/MDR and ebXML/freebXML?
Hi Linus, I must admit I am not that familiar with MOF/MDR to give an educated answer. The ebXML Registry/Repository standard provides a general purpose integrated registry + reposotory (regrep). It places a strong emphasis on security, federation, classification, relationships, discovery, subscription / notification etc. It is agnostic to the type of artifacts it stores though it is extensible and can support artifact specific profiles as extensions to the regrep. For an overview please see: <http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/wiki/Overview> In particular, for collaborative authoring please see: <http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/wiki/Overview#Collaborative_Authoring:_An_Illustrative_Use_Case> I would be very grateful if you could point me to some good reading on MOF / MDR so I can fix my knowledge deficiency. Perhaps, we could learn and incorporate support for MDR in the next version of our specs. Also, it would be helpful if you could take a stab at identifying a functional Venn Diagram (conceptually speaking) of the MDR and ebXML Registry. For example here is a functional capability matrix that you could use as a potential resource: <http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/Registry_Capability_Matrix.html> > Not looking at this from a technical perspective the big difference is > probably the supporters of the different techniques. > > MOF is put forward as a standard by OMG, ebXML by some e-business > interest group. Again, please distinguish between ebXML as a whole and ebXML Registry as a specific and independent standard. ebXML Registry is an OASIS standard as well as an ISO standard (ISO 15000, part 3,4). So it is no less a "standard" and is not the output of "some e-business interest group". > > Sofar ArgoUML (and UML) has been all OMG and with the software > developers' arrogance we are looking on things the business people drag > in with skepticism. The ebXML Registry standard is something I have been involved with since version 0.1 draft spec and I can honestly tell you I wish we had more "business people" input. The work has largely been dominated by geeks like myself and is technology heavy and very light on business. The main criticism we get is the same as MOF might get ;-) That we are way to generic and not enough business focused. The only time geeks like me went against the "business types was when they were opposed to the UML centric nature of the specs. Luckily, the geeks won ;-) > > On the other hand, the two worlds are merging. Looking at > http://www.bpmi.org/ it looks like the BPMI and OMG have worked together > for over a year so I am not all updated. +1 > A couple of years back (I think it was in 2002) Anders W. Tell was > discussing something similar on this list. Since he is located in > Stockholm I met with him over lunch and discussed the use of ArgoUML in > his work. We lost contact. His website about ebxml > (http://www.ebxml.nu/) doesn't seem really updated anymore (not much has > happened there since 2004) and the project Open ebXML seems abandoned. > I have not heard from Anders for some time. I am not sure what he is up to these days but I am quite sure it is worthwhile. -- Regards, Farrukh Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
