I've always preferred Business Service Architecture over SOBA. SOBA always sounds like its trying to take web services upwards, the point of BSA is that its the business services that are important.
Steve 2008/9/26 Shashank Dutt Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think what we are talking about is SOA for BA/EA. > > So it shoud have been either SOBA: Service Oriented Business > Architecture or enterprise architecture. > > SOA as a term is mis-coined for the concepts it is propagting. And > continues to be done so. > > regards, > shashank > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:18 PM, JP Morgenthal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Actually, I like where this thread is going. We could easily >> make the assertion that SOA is the container itself and that the >> items contained in the architectural container encompass >> service-orientation. Hence, we can focus on what we want to put >> in the container and stop arguing about what the container is >> called. Thus, SOA asserts itself as a thing, but has no >> discriminate attributes, but is the aggregation of the contained >> items' attributes. >> >> The other interesting side-effect of making this assertion is that >> there's a 1:1 correlation between the concept of SOA as a >> container and a physical service container that would be used to >> implement an SOA design. >> >> Now, all we need to do is start a debate on what we want to put in >> the SOA container. >> >> JP >> >> On Fri Sep 26 11:14:40 CDT 2008, Shashank Dutt Jha >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> --- In [email protected], "Kirstan >>>> >>>> Vandersluis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > --- In [email protected], "Rob >>>> Eamon" >>>> > <reamon@> wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > SOA is not an architecture. It is a style. >>>> > >>>> > I would maintain that SOA is a "thing", an architecture with a >>>> > particular style. >>>> >>>> I don't disagree that architecture is a thing. Where we may >>>> disagree >>>> is whether or not "SOA" is an architecture. I contend it is not. >>> >>> Most of the confusion I assume stems from the name SOA : Service >>> Oriented Architecture itself. >>> >>> Unless we have more appropriate name to refer to what SOA intends >>> to >>> in principal, it will continue to create confusion and >>> unnecessary/repeated debates over what it is and what not. >>> >>> regards, >>> shashank >>> >> >
