I cannot agree with you, Javier, in service definition.
One of the reasons: "a number of well-defined automatic interfaces" may be
totally unrelated to the corporate business and provide no or negative value
to the business (nobody talks about agile IT and business in here any more).
That is, the basic reasoning of SOA and its major acceptance drivers are
totally lost. However, the definition you provide IS compatible with the SOA
RM, unfortunately (to my opinion).
As of about business director, even from pure technical perspectives, where
are you going to get money for your salary? However, if you have a super-color
printer...
- Michael
javicamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Currently, my favourite ones are:
- Service-Oriented Architecture: It is said that the architecture of an
Information System is Service-Oriented when it supports the
Service-Orientation paradigm.
- Service Orientation: It is a way to structure an information system so
that the implementation of the whole functionalities offered by it is
distributed across discrete units called services, which can be used through a
programmatic interface.
- Service: A service is an element of an information system which offers a
precise set of functionalities through a number of well-defined automatic
interfaces.
They can be expanded but these are short enough. Honestly, I think these are
compatible with the OASIS SOA RM ones, seen from the technology side. However,
the ones from the RM are too abstract for my linking.
I won't try to explain them to my mother. She is not interested in SOA, and
indeed should not be. Neither should be a business director. As you can
imagine, I see SOA only as a technical artifact.
Regards
--Javier
--- In [email protected], "Gervas Douglas"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> No one anywhere in the known universe has yet come up with a
> definition of SOA which commands widespread acceptance. Perhaps it is
> time we had another crack at it.
>
> Over to you ladies and gents...
>
> Gervas
>
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