John (...and not his wife),
reg/rep is too specific for the RM. We step up one level to
"Discovery, Presence and Availability".
-Matt
On 1-May-05, at 7:05 AM, john c hardin wrote:
> This is coming from John, not his wife!!! Damned Comcast / Thunderbird
> mail client problem that I am wrestling with currently....
>
> john
>
> meggan hardin wrote:
>> My assumptions (so far) about the central metadata concepts have been
>> that the reg/rep holds this data. Are we delving to the level of
>> defining specific types of resources / components that should be
>> included in a major component such as the reg/rep? I think that the
>> concept of storing semantic metadata as an independent integration
>> reference point is important enough to be included in the RM.
>> FWIW - Contivo terms the semantic metadata repository the "enterprise
>> vocabulary"...
>> john
>> Smith, Martin wrote:
>>> Violent agreement.
>>> martin
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: Schuldt, Ron L [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Fri 4/29/2005 6:39 PM
>>> To: Smith, Martin; Sharma, Sameer; Duane Nickull;
>>>
>>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC;
>>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sameer will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that his intent
>>> was
>>> to include the notion of central metadata within a "Reference
>>> Architecture" not the Reference Model. Appendix B is the place where
>>> example use cases would be defined. I suspect that Sameer might be
>>> willing to submit an example use case.
>>>
>>> Ron Schuldt
>>> Senior Staff Systems Architect
>>> Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
>>> 11757 W. Ken Caryl Ave.
>>> #F521 Mail Point DC5694
>>> Littleton, CO 80127
>>> 303-977-1414
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Smith, Martin [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:19 PM
>>> To: Sharma, Sameer; Duane Nickull;
>>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC;
>>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sameer - -
>>>
>>> Let me practice being Matt <g>:
>>>
>>> The term " 'central' metadata" presumes a specific implementation
>>> strategy and should not be in the RM. Perhaps "metadata associated
>>> with
>>> the service should be available in the environment." Now in my
>>> example
>>> SOA for Appendix B, I'll probably show a UDDI services directory, or
>>> maybe a combo registry/repository that can in fact store all the
>>> description metadata.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sharma, Sameer [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 2:16 PM
>>> To: Smith, Martin; Duane Nickull;
>>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC;
>>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>>
>>>
>>> My feeling is that some of what you are alluding to might be covered
>>> by
>>> UDDI,
>>> however as is happening in an instance of SOA deployment that I am
>>> involved
>>> in - UDDI by itself is not going to be sufficient to express all the
>>> metadata
>>> that is needed for a client to successfully and contextually
>>> interpret
>>> all
>>> that a Web Service does.
>>>
>>> My attempted solution is to capture this additional metadata by
>>> leveraging
>>> central metadata services of my enterprise. I guess what I am saying
>>> is
>>> that
>>> the concept of "central metadata" might be a valid candidate as a
>>> component of
>>> the Reference Architecture we are considering.
>>>
>>> Since I was unable to participate in the F2F, (due to some last
>>> minute
>>> commitments that I got called into), if this topic was discussed,
>>> please
>>> accept my apologies for bringing it up again.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> L
>>> Sameer Sharma
>>> Principal Applications Architect
>>> Lockheed Martin Corporation
>>> Chief Technology Office (CTO)
>>> 12506 Lake Underhill Road - MP 166
>>> Orlando, FL-32825
>>> Tel: (407) 306 5640
>>> Fax:(407) 306 1392
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Smith, Martin [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 1:38 PM
>>> To: Duane Nickull;
>>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC;
>>> Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>>
>>> Folks - -
>>>
>>> On my way home from N'awlins Wed night, I had a thought on this
>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> I think we expect services in an SOA to be independent of the kind of
>>> shared contextual knowledge we usually presume within a local
>>> computing
>>> environment. We expect that the requesting service will be able to
>>> obtain all the info it needs to use the responding service
>>> successfully
>>> by processing the responding service's description metadata. I do
>>> think
>>> this is a core characteristic of SOA services.
>>>
>>> I'm not suggesting we reinstate the use of the word "autonomous" as a
>>> handle for this concept since it demonstrably caused confusion at the
>>> f2f. If we need a handle, perhaps "self-sufficient" or
>>> "self-documenting" or "introspective" (naaah - forget that one.)
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Duane Nickull [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:43 PM
>>> To:
>>> Cc: ebSOA OASIS TC;
>>> Subject: [soa-rm] Re: Autonomous Services?
>>>
>>> We discussed and the submitter withdrew the submission pending
>>> clarification on exactly what is meant by Autonomous nature WRT
>>> services. It may be re-submitted and probably will however we do not
>>> have consensus on it at present.
>>>
>>> Duane
>>>
>>> john c hardin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Duane and SOA-RM group -
>>>> Can someone enlighten the members of the eb-soa group regarding a
>>>> description of Autonomous Services? Any resulting conversations from
>>>> the meetings this week, on the subject of Autonomous Services would
>>>> be
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> good also.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> john
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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