2008/12/21 Nick Gall <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2008/12/21 Nick Gall <[email protected]>: >> >> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> Define integration in a tight and specific way. >> > >> > Hey, I asked first! <grin> You define SOA in a "tight and specific way" >> > first. >> >> OASIS SOA RM ;) > > Hey, the OASIS SOA RM is 31 pages long. That hardly counts as "tight". I > suspect you mean the definition given in the glossary of the RM on page > 29: Service Oriented Architecture is a paradigm for organizing and utilizing > distributed capabilities that may be under the control of different > ownership domains. It provides a uniform means to offer, discover, interact > with and use capabilities to produce desired effects consistent with > measurable preconditions and expectations.
Nope I more mean the diagram that describes the different bits of SOA, I'm a picture person. I think that those pictures that lay out the different parts of a service et al and relegate the technology to the execution context are the description of SOA. > We already went through a discussion of how "specific" this definition is . > No need to repeat it. Let's just agree to disagree as to whether the OASIS > SOA RM definition of SOA is specific. But I will say that it sounds about as > specific as "to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or > unified whole : unite". The "economy" comment is one of the poorest criticisms of the RM IMO, mainly because when you look at modern business research on value networks then they are in effect saying that the whole economy is a mesh of collaborating services. The economy is in fact service oriented. Steve > -- Nick >
