Hi Michael, Back from another assignment. :-)
--- In [email protected], Michael Poulin <m3pou...@...> wrote: > > However, I have some problems with proposed SOA definition, in particular > with "focuses on design of systems from the perspective of providers and > consumers as defined by a contract. SOA-based designs introduce agility by > enabling interchangeability of service providers without requiring process > changes in the consumers." As we know, when we design SO architecture, we do > not (cannot) anticipate the service consumers and scenarios where the > services will be used. This means, we cannot talk about 'contracts' because > the sense of this word assumes an agreements between parties; if one party is > unknown, what the agreement may be? > True if we are talking about providing services for general audiences, but in most cases users want to limit who can use their services and only a few limited services are offered to general audiences. H.Ozawa
