Anne, Thanks for the awesome elaboration. It is now clear to me what SOA governance means. I am however also reading the W3C papers link that Steve mentioned in his mail.
Since I was in the product team of a Web Services Mgmt product, Formerly known as Confluent Software and now a part of Oracle, I assumed that SOA Governance was related to WS mgmt. However, since the term was new, I was trying to get information to agree or dis-agree with my assumption. >From your explanation, I see that my assumption was correct. Thanks a bunch again. Cheers G. --- In [email protected], Anne Thomas Manes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Based on my experience working with clients, I disagree that the term > "governance" is scoped to the subject of the W3C workshop on constraints and > capabilities. I've written a lot about governance for Burton Group. > Unfortunately, I can't share those reports with you because Burton Group > reports are available only to subscribers. > > But I will share with you some basic thoughts: > > Governance refers to the processes that an enterprise puts in place to > ensure that things are done right, where "right" means in accordance with > best practices, architectural principles, government regulations, laws, and > other determining factors. SOA governance refers to the processes used to > govern adoption and implementation of SOA. > > SOA governance involves three steps: > > 1. Define SOA policies > 2. Deploy an SOA infrastructure that supports adoption of these > policies > 3. Institute a set of formal processes and procedures that verify > compliance with these policies > > SOA policies relate to issues such as: > > - · Design principles > - · Preferred design patterns > - · Application-factoring rules > - · Naming conventions > - · Metadata requirements > - · Documentation > - · Preferred products > - · Product selection guidelines > - · Preferred domain standards > - · Preferred industry standards > - · Methods for dealing with regulatory requirements > - · Methods for assessing security risks > - Methods for implementing security based on risk factor > - · Methods for ensuring reliability and transaction integrity· > - Service testing > - New service deployment and staging > - · Service registration > - · Service classification > - · Service provisioning > - · Service configuration > - · Service monitoring > - · Client provisioning > - · Service modification > - · Service versioning > - · Impact analysis > - · Service level objectives (SLO) > - · Service level agreement (SLA) compliance tracking > - · Error tracking and resolution > > This list is long, but it barely scratches the surface. > > Products that help with SOA governance include registries, repositories, > software asset management systems, workflow, testing tools, web services > management. > > No one vendor covers the full SOA governance lifecycle. > > Leading players in the SOA governance software market include: > > - Systinet and WebLayers, who provide policy management systems > (repository-based system for managing the lifecycle of codified policies) as > well as policy compliance testing tools and integrated workflow for managing > approval processes. Mindreef also does some compliance testing, but at a > much smaller scope. > - Systinet, Infravio, Flashline, and LogicLibrary, who provide > registries, repositories, and/or software asset management systems, which > are extremely useful for managing SOA assets and which can be used as a > gatekeeper for institution of governance approval processes at various > points in the service lifecycle (dev, testing, staging, provisioning, > revisions) > - AmberPoint, Actional, Layer 7, and Reactivity, who provide support > for governance at the service provisioning and runtime stages. > > Anne > > On 11/19/05, Gautham Kasinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Steve, > > > > Thanks for the brief explanation. I am reading the workshop materials > > from W3C on the topic, following your advice. > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Cheers > > Gautham Kasinath > > --- In [email protected], Steve > > Ross-Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Gautham, > > > > > > Normally the term governance as applied to SOA is based on the notion > > > of static governance. > > > This is the sort of thing that WS-Policy (which is not a standard) is > > > all about. A recent workshop > > > run by W3C looked at wider notions of governance including the more > > > interesting form which is > > > dynamic governance. > > > > > > It probably makes sense to take a peek at the W3C workshop papers to > > > get a better understanding > > > of what governance is all about. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve T > > > > > > W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services > > > http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ws-cc-program.html#papers > > > > > > > > > > > > On 19 Nov 2005, at 00:33, Gautham Kasinath wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > What exactly is SOA governance? Is it goverining an SOA framework, > > > > like in monitoring request-response, SLA etc? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Gautham Kasinath > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], John Crupi > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Would you like to start with the use-cases/scenarios first to > > help > > > > > narrow the problem? > > > > > > > > > > jc > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > > John Crupi > > > > > CTO, Enterprise Web Services Practice > > > > > Sun Distinguished Engineer > > > > > AIM: JohnCrupi > > > > > Blog: blogs.sun.com/crupi <http://blogs.sun.com/crupi> > > > > > Cell: 301.526.7890 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 18, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Tilak Mitra wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I am looking for some real world implementation of SOA > > > > > > Governance, starting right from a project inception > > > > > > i.e. Strategy and Visioning , through Design, > > > > > > Implementation and right through operational and > > > > > > runtime. > > > > > > Any white paper / research work or material in any > > > > > > other form would be helpful. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Tilak > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > > > Yahoo! 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