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Re: Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today

• To: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Major Historical SOA Milestone Today
• From: Chris Burdess <d09@h...>
• Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:54:47 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev org <xml-dev@l...>
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Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> <Definitions>
> OMG:
>
> Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural style for a  
> community of providers and consumers of services to achieve mutual  
> value, that:
>
> * Allows participants in the communities to work together with  
> minimal co-dependence or technology dependence
> * Specifies the contracts to which organizations, people and  
> technologies must adhere in order to participate in the community
> * Provides for business value and business processes to be realized  
> by the community
> * Allows for a variety of technology to be used to facilitate  
> interactions within the community
>
> The corresponding definition of service has not yet been finalized  
> but the sense of the group is that there would be both a business/ 
> domain centric notion of service as well as an interaction focused  
> definition.
>
> THE OPEN GROUP:
>
> SOA is an architectural style that supports service orientation
>
> * Service orientation: A way of a way of thinking in terms of  
> services and service based development and the outcomes that  
> services bring
>
> * Service: A logical representation of a repeatable business  
> activity that has a specified outcome (e.g., check customer credit;  
> provide weather data, consolidate drilling reports), is self- 
> contained and maybe composed of other Services. It is a black box  
> to consumers of the Service
>
> * Architectural Style: The combination of distinctive features in  
> which Enterprise Architecture is done, or expressed
>
> * The SOA Architectural style's distinctive features:
>
>   - Based on the design of the services comprising an enterprise's
>      (or inter-enterprise) business processes. Services mirror real- 
> world
>      business activity
>
>   - Service representation utilizes business descriptions. Service
>      representation requires providing its context (including business
>      process, goal, rule, policy, service interface and service  
> component)
>      and service orchestration to implement service
>
>   - Has unique requirements on infrastructure. Implementations are
>      recommended to use open standards, realize interoperability and
>      location transparency.
>
>   - Implementations are environment specific, they are constrained or
>     enabled by context and must be described within their context.
>
>   - Requires strong governance of service representation and  
> implementation
>
>   - Requires a "Litmus Test", which determined a "good service"
>
> OASIS:
>
> Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) 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. (NOTE: This is from the SOA-RM Glossary, but we can  
> consider the entire spec to be a definition for SOA, as it is a  
> reference model)
> </Definitions>

To summarise:

OMG: SOA is a collaboration that allows business processes to happen
Open Group: SOA is all about (and cannot exist without) business  
processes
OASIS: SOA isn't necessarily anything to do with business processes
-- 
ç?¬ Chris Burdess
   "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety
   deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

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