Your article sounds quite interesting, particularly your "suggestion". I'm interested in how this impacts the MDA approach to designing SOA systems. But it looks like I have to buy the journal to find out.
Dave Ashley at Metamaxim wrote: > Mark Baker wrote: > > > Application protocols define application semantics. They are not > > "protocols" in the same sense of the word used in systems like CORBA, > > DCOM, RMI, Jini, etc.. IMO, that's the root cause of the > > misunderstanding. If these things had been called "locotorps", this > > confusion wouldn't exist; "protocol independence" would be a good > > idea, since protocols just move bits around. But "locotorp > > independence" would be silly, because everybody knows that locotorps > > define the application semantics, and how can an applications be > > independent of application semantics?! 8-) > > I entirely agree. I have been involved for a while in the theory and > practice of modelling application semantics in terms of their > "locotorps" , and believe that more attention needs to be paid to this > if anything like dynamic discovery/linking to services is to be achieved. > > We have recently had a paper called "Protocol Modelling" published in > The Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SpringerLink, see > http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/issue.asp?wasp=f1f2fb6e1a0547538f88a4461ba77f48&referrer=parent&backto=journal,1,14;browsepublicationsresults,2233,2497 > > <http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/issue.asp?wasp=f1f2fb6e1a0547538f88a4461ba77f48&referrer=parent&backto=journal,1,14;browsepublicationsresults,2233,2497> > ) > . This paper is about *applications protocols* and I now think we > should have called this paper "Locotorp Modelling" :-) > > Rgds > Ashley > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
