i think that SOA is a complex concept not reducible to a single statement. We can not describe evolution with words as we do we create a tension between the fixation of descriptive language and the changing nature of evolution. In another word, language to describe business orgnization is not first order logic but a higher order one. That is the central problem of today's management theory still rooted in Newton's mechanistic paradigm.
The current definition of SOA is partial and many of those donot facilitate understanding. I think that a service is a semantic unity to be integrated into pragmatics of business processes. The concept of service is ontological not epistemilogical. Jerry --- "shashank d. jha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > I was going through the reference model os soa by > OASIS and I found it > lacking seriously in most of the abstractions it > talks about > > Lets start with soa definition itself- > SOA- (SOA) is a paradigm for organizing and > utilizing distributed > capabilities that may be under the control of > different ownership domains. > > Till now my general understanding of soa was > SOA is an architectural approach that seeks to align > business processes with > service protocols and the underlying software > components and legacy > applications that implement them. > > similarly abstraction of vocabulary execution > context, visibility, > real-world effect, interaction all seems to be too > primitive, lacking in > general high level abstraction. > > At one point document says > A service is a mechanism to enable access to one > or more capabilities? > > Is service a mechanism or end? > > In the topic "Dynamics of service" it has used so > many closely related and > confusing terms like visibility, awareness, > real-world effect, willingness, > reachability etc.? > > What is the general opinion of people here? > > > --------------- > regards, > shashank > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the New Yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com/preview) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
