That's a bit narrow, but then, I don't know how specific or inclusive
we need to be, nor whether we want to consider specifying that the
role of "service consumer" applies only during the invocation, nor
whether we might want to consider the role "consumer service" as an
intermediary between the service provider and the service consumer
where numerous providers could be aggregated into a broker for a
particular domain, such as human resources or supply chain management.
Ciao,
Rex
At 12:29 AM -0700 4/7/05, Thomas Erl wrote:
>Now that we've decided on the term "service consumer" it may be
>useful to formally define it. The term "consumer" is used by the
>WS-I Basic Profile wherein it is simply defined as "Software that
>invokes an instance."
>
>Thomas
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