Anders:
This is a good point we have talked about before. It is really a
"contract offer" until such time as it is bilateral.
Duane
Anders W. Tell wrote:
> I would suggesto to qualify the term Contract or better yet to replace
> term with other term since in in business and legal domain the contract
> involves two or more parties. This in order to avoid confusion.
>
> Another aspect is the it may be profitable to differentiate between:
>
> a) technical/functional description of actual characteristics of service
> (similar to machine specs)
> b) public statement of existence of a) or parts of a)
> ( we got this wonderfull machine but we dont offer it yet)
> d) public statement of offering or availability of a) or parts of a)
> e) agreement between two or more parties involving a) or parts of a)
>
>
> /anders
>
>
> Gregory A. Kohring wrote:
>
>> OK, here is a slightly different view using UML. In this view
>> metadata is the higher level abstraction, while contract is a more
>> specialized abstraction.
>>
>> -- Greg
>>
>> Duane Nickull wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Francis:
>>>
>>> Cool! This is perhaps a place where using UML to avoid ambiguity
>>> may be
>>> good.
>>>
>>> If I read your diagram, it asserts that "realized as" implies an
>>> "abstract-concrete" association. I had viewed that the other concepts
>>> are more of a "can be aggregated as part of" association. My
>>> observation is that usually the abstract-concrete association is often
>>> used for mapping a specific protocol or specification to a concept in a
>>> reference model or reference architecture.
>>> I guess the question we need to consider is "what is the association
>>> between the higher level abstract concept of metadata and specialized
>>> metadata concepts?".
>>>
>>> Anyone care to take a stab at this as a UML class diagram (or answering
>>> the question)?
>>>
>>> Cheers (and beers next week)
>>>
>>> Duane
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Francis McCabe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I prefer the following diagram :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 19, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Duane Nickull wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> <Drawing1.png>
>>>>>
>>>>
>
>
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