RE: [soa-rm] RE: Act versus Object versus...both?

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RE: [soa-rm] RE: Act versus Object versus...both?
<Quote>

Is it 
fair to say the thing is the static view and the action the dynamic 
one?

</Quote>

 

Yup 
- I also like the language you used.  

  

  
  From: Chiusano Joseph 
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 
  11:19 AM
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Subject: RE: 
  [soa-rm] RE: Act versus Object versus...both?

  

  

  
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Is it 
  fair to say the thing is the static view and the action the dynamic 
  one?

  
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Yes - I like that.

  
 

  
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    From:  
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Sent: Thursday, December 
    08, 2005 11:17 AM
To: ; Metz Rebekah; Chiusano 
    Joseph; ; 
Subject: 
    RE: [soa-rm] RE: Act versus Object versus...both?

    

    

    
The 
    notion of duality for a service is nice.

    
 

    
Is 
    it fair to say the thing is the static view and the action the dynamic 
    one?

    
 

    
Wes

    
 

    
 

    
-----Original 
    Message-----
From: 
    Bashioum, Christopher D [mailto:]
Sent: December 8, 2005 11:11 
    AM
To: Metz Rebekah; 
    Chiusano Joseph; Laskey, Ken; 
Subject: [soa-rm] RE: Act versus Object 
    versus...both?

    
 

    
Wow - 
    that was a mouthful!  ; )

    
 

    
So I 
    think you said that its ok as long as we all agree that a service is 
    both a thing and an action - is that correct?

    
 

    

    
    

    
From: Metz Rebekah 
    [mailto:] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:26 
    AM
To: Bashioum, 
    Christopher D; Chiusano Joseph; Laskey, Ken; 
    
Subject: Act versus Object 
    versus...both?

    
The 
    phrasing Chris selected prompted something for me…let me see if I can put 
    words to it.  After the discussions yesterday, I spent some time last 
    night reading linguistic research to try and better understand what about 
    the relationship between noun and verb forms of ‘service’ are sticking 
    points for me.  As I suspected; it has to with the implications about 
    the relationships between these lexical forms.  What was most 
    interesting was to realize the variety of aspects to be considered.  
    However, I think that I found what makes me want to tread careful and 
    clearly understand and distinguish between service as a noun and service as 
    a verb.  

    
 

    
In 
    addition, the phrasing you selected suggested that there are two active 
    portions of the ‘service scenario’:

    
1)       
    That 
    ‘of bringing a 
    desired capability to bear’

    
2)       
    That 
    of the capability itself

    
 

    
I’m 
    looking right now at the first active portion only.  I think we already 
    recognize the distinction between the two in wd-10.  But this served as 
    a reminder to me.

    
 

    
Essentially, when 
    using the nominalized form of an active verb like ‘to serve’ in a sentence; 
    an abstract noun performs most of the work.  Nominalization can also 
    permit the elision of the subject and object of a verb. Therefore, we can 
    write about a process or action and yet not mention who is involved.  
    This is part of the sticking point for me when it comes to a reference model 
    in which we’re trying to unambiguously define key concepts – because we’re 
    using terminology that permits us to unintentionally cloud the concepts when 
    we are seeking clarity.

    
 

    
Harrumph.  To 
    me this still wasn’t completely satisfying.  
    

    
 

    
So I 
    dug a bit further and discovered that there are many ‘types’ of 
    nominalizations, including ‘episodic nominalizations.’    An 
    episodic nominalization takes an active process and conceives it as a 
    noun.  So far so good, for service as both noun and verb.  
    However, here’s where I found some interesting information about the 
    intuition of language that is captured by these different forms.  
    Although quite similar, these two forms represent a different semantics 
    which conceptually develop.  In an episodic nominalization, the 
    conception is no longer viewed as a process but rather as a single episode 
    (i.e. only as the sum rather than the sum of its parts).  Yes this 
    starts to get into cognitive psychology and linguistics ( and I apologize to 
    those who just want to know what does the word service mean within the 
    context of SOA but bear with me).  

    
 

    
Where 
    I got to is that yes, we may actually be talking about the same thing but 
    from different angles.  What I’m recognizing is that those angles come 
    with specific inferences and assumptions that stem from language itself that 
    we may not be explicitly aware of and which set up 
    confusion.

    
 

    
So 
    what am I saying? That the text in the draft works well to recognize that 
    the term service(noun) unifies several related concepts – and we do it 
    justice to recognize those interrelated concepts.  Using the 
    terminology above, they’re conceptualized into a single episode.  If we 
    are clear about that, then I’ll accept that a service can be intended as 
    either.  

    
 

    
(Now 
    you all know how I spent my evening)

    
Rebekah

    
 

    
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    Metz

    
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    Hamilton

    
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From: Bashioum, 
    Christopher D [mailto:] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:52 
    AM
To: Chiusano Joseph; 
    
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
 

    
Thanks 
    - that was helpful.

    
 

    
That 
    being the case, the RM concept of a service maps to a concrete "thing" 
    called a service, that performs the action of bringing a desired capability 
    to bear when invoked in the context of an SOA - or at least an RM conformant 
    SOA.  

    
 

    
How's 
    that for a beltway insider?

    
 

    
 

    
 

    

    
    

    
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:] 
    
Sent: Thursday, December 
    08, 2005 9:41 AM
To: 
    
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
Please see 
    comments below, marked with [JMC].

    
 

    
Joe

    
 

    
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    Chiusano

    
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    Allen Hamilton

    
 

    
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From: Bashioum, 
    Christopher D [mailto:] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:31 
    AM
To: Chiusano Joseph; 
    
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
Does that mean that 
    all the elements in the concept map are only concepts - none of them 
    translate into objects or actions (or any other concrete 
    thing)?   

    
 

    
[JMC] They 
    translate into concrete things when an implementation is created that 
    conforms to the reference model (or an existing implementation is mapped to 
    it).

    
 

    
I thought one of 
    the purposes of a RM was to identify and give a language to the basic 
    elements of the thing being modeled.  I.e., and SOA will have all the 
    elements that are identified in the RM.  

    
 

    
[JMC] A SOA 
    *implementation* may have concrete elements that map to the abstract 
    elements (concepts) that are identified in the RM.

    
 

    
I think Ken's 
    description is still the best one,  that "a service is a means to bring 
    a capability to bear in an SOA context".   In this case, it is 
    still a noun (or a thing) (or at least I think so, my wife is the English 
    major - not me)

    
 

    
[JMC] It is a noun, 
    as well as an action (alluding to my prior recent post on this). So in 
    comparison, a political compaign (sorry, I live in Washington DC;) can be thought of as a means to 
    potentially bring a candidate into elected political office (using very 
    loose wording here), while "to campaign" is the action that is associated 
    with that noun. If one had a reference model for campaigns, it would contain 
    concepts such as "candidate", "policitical party", "regions" (perhaps the 
    region(s) of the country that their campaign would cover - a gubernatorial 
    campaign would cover one state, a presidential campaign all states), etc. In 
    order to campaign (the action), one would leverage the campaign reference 
    model as a means to guide them in their action of 
    campaigning.

    
 

    
Joe

    

    
 

    

    
    

    
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:] 
    
Sent: Thursday, December 
    08, 2005 6:58 AM
To: 
    
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    

    
I know we're trying to avoid "+1"'s as much as 
    possible on this list, so I will put it into words: I completely agree with 
    Duane on all his points just below. 
    

    
 

    
Duane, I'm glad 
    you've started your guide to concept maps - hopefully in time this will help 
    the situation. We have used concept maps for the DRM as 
    well.

    
 

    
Joe

    
 

    

    
    

    
From: Duane Nickull 
    [mailto:]
Sent: Thu 12/8/2005 1:40 AM
To: Metz Rebekah; Bashioum, Christopher 
    D; 
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
I believe that the 
    problem, with is largely due to the fact there is no normative reference for 
    how to interpret concept maps.  In this case, a service is neither an 
    action nor an object.  It is imply an abstract 
    concept.

    
 

    
D

    
 

    
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From: Metz Rebekah 
    [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:18 
    PM
To: Bashioum, 
    Christopher D; 
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
 

    

    

    
    

    
From: Bashioum, 
    Christopher D [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:06 
    PM
To: Metz Rebekah; 
    
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
 

    
Rebekah,

    
 

    
what about the 
    potential of an act?   

    

    
 

    
[->] 
    The potential of service is an offer.  

    
 

    

    
I have a problem 
    with the following

    
 

    
<Snip>

    
The actual 
    invocation and performance of the capability is the service; i.e. the 
    action.  

    
</Snip>

    
 

    
if I understand 
    what you are saying here, it would imply that a service is not a service 
    until it is actually performing an action.  During the time that it is 
    "waiting" to perform an action it is not a service, nor is it after it has 
    completed the action it was created to do.  

    
 

    

    
[->] 
    yes, you are right.  That is exactly what I’m implying.  The 
    service isn’t performing the action, the implementation of the action 
    is.  The service is the performance.

    

    
 

    
 

    
In Duane's diagram, 
    the service exists independent of the interaction.  However, the 
    interaction is what causes the real-world effect.  

    
 

    
I'm not sure I buy 
    the other statement that a service is an act as opposed to an object.  
    Isn't it an object (in that it exists) who's purpose is to perform an 
    act?

    

    
[->] 
    So I’ll ask a question in return.  Let’s assume the statement is 
    true.  If a service exists as an object that is independent of the 
    capability who’s purpose it is to perform; what differentiates the service 
    from the capability?  

    
 

    

    
  For that 
    matter, is the capability what is actually providing the "action" and the 
    service is the means to access that action?

    

    
[->] 
    From this perspective, what differentiates the service from the service 
    access point?

    

    
 

    

    
[->] 
    My point is that the conceptualization of service as an object doesn’t 
    provide resolution to these questions.  It is for this reason that I 
    started examining service as a verb rather than a noun.  From that 
    perspective, the concepts and the relationships between them 
    clarified.

    
 

    
Rebekah

    

    
 

    

    
    

    
From: Metz Rebekah 
    [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:37 
    PM
To: 
    
Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Proposal: 
    Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
Gosh – if this 
    email came through in some weird format for everyone else, I am terribly 
    sorry about the wacky formatting of this email thread.  Not sure if 
    everyone saw it as I did, but at least my outlook client puked 
    =)

    
 

    
Uh-oh.  We 
    seem to be starting to head back to the service as an object as opposed to 
    an act.  I still do not believe that a service is an ‘object.’ 
      In fact, I believe that assumption has caused much of the 
    difficulty in figuring out what a service actually is.  
    

    
 

    
What is invoked is 
    a capability, consistent with the execution context and so to produce real 
    world effects.  The actual invocation and performance of the capability 
    is the service; i.e. the action.  Hence I maintain that visibility, 
    interaction and effect are the interrelated concepts often (yet confusingly) 
    referred to with a shorthand nomenclature of ‘service.’

    
 

    
As far as roles go, 
    the very essence of the word service is the recognition that <someone> 
    does <something> for <someone else>.  I would agree that 
    any other specification of this generalization (uh…isn’t that an ontology) 
    belongs in something other than the RM.  

    
 

    
Rebekah

    
 

    
Rebekah Metz

    
Associate

    
Booz Allen Hamilton

    
Voice:  (703) 
    377-1471

    
Fax:     (703) 
    902-3457

    
 

    

    

    
    

    
From: Ken Laskey 
    [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:19 
    PM
To: Metz Rebekah
Cc: Jones, Steve G; ; 
    ; ; ; 
    ; ; 
    ; ; 
    
Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of 
    SOA-RM Draft for Better 

    
 

    
inline 
    

    
 

    
On Dec 7, 2005, at 
    4:00 PM, Metz Rebekah wrote: 

    

    
 

    
Comments inline… 
    

    
 

    
From: Ken Laskey 
    [mailto:] 

    
Sent: Wednesday, 
    December 07, 2005 3:43 PM 

    
To: Jones, Steve G 
    

    
Cc: 
    ; ; ; 
    ; ; 
    ; ; 
    ;  

    
Subject: Re: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
If I invoke a 
    service, I am a service consumer. It does not matter if I invoke the service 
    on my own initiative or am told to do it (through a targeted instruction or 
    as part of a more complex set of instructions), I am still the service 
    consumer. 

    
  
    

    
[->] Agreed. 
    

    
  
    

    
I could glibly say 
    that if I "provide" a service, I'm a service provider, but I fear things are 
    not that simple. Is the entity that created the service its provider, or the 
    one who maintains it, or the one who hosts it, or the one who pays for it, 
    or ...? 

    
[->] I see this 
    being a question of ‘what are the roles’ versus ‘who plays the 
    roles’.   At first pass, it seems right that we recognize the 
    roles @ the RM level and leave the details of determining the best way to 
    decide how to assign some entity into that role to the RA. 
    

    
  
    

    

    
I think it is easy 
    to start naming roles but difficult to stop, and the roles will get more 
    use-specific. 

    

    
 

    
Luckily, from the 
    RM standpoint, we don't care. 

    
[->] or do we 
    just delegate =) 

    

    
 

    
... to someone who 
    has no choice but to care ;-) 

    

    
To be used within 
    the context of SOA, the service must be visible, must be able to take part 
    in an interaction 

    
[->] Here it 
    sounds like the service is an active player in an interaction.  Isn’t 
    it that the service consumer and provider interact (as specified…? 
    

    

    
 

    
Isn't the service 
    an active player? I invoke it to get its real world effect, so it certainly 
    sounds like it does something. 

    

    
 

    
(as specified by 
    the established execution context), and must produce a real world effect 
    (which I assume may in some circumstances be null). It has been "provided" 
    but we don't care how or by whom. 

    
  
    

    
So, in summary, 
    there's a lot of muddy water but sometimes we can avoid playing in it. :-) 
    

    
[->] Or we can 
    draw a circle around it and leave that to the RA =) 

    
  
    

    

    
... at which point 
    you initially choose RA cases that you can more cleanly defined. You 
    eventually get to the tougher ones, but we should learn to ride a bicycle 
    before we get a motorcycle (unless Duane has a different perspective) 
    

    

    
 

    
Ken 
    

    
[->] Rebekah 
    

    
 

    

    
Ken 
    

    

    
 

    
  
    

    
If I make a service 
    available for someone to invoke (and here I would say that "make available" 
    

    
On Dec 7, 2005, at 
    4:47 AM, Jones, Steve G wrote: 

    

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
To add some mud 
    into the water… 

    
  
    

    
Many Bus 
    architectures do “enrichment” of messages between consumer and producer, 
    including the invocation of other services to perform that enrichment (e.g 
    stock quote returns current price, enrichment provides the last ten days 
    closing price).  They may also do calculations that result in the 
    non-connection or “empty” return from the service (e.g. if you call for 
    “last five minutes trades” after the market has closed… its an empty set). 
     So while I agree that the service consumer is key it’s sometimes hard 
    to identify the true consumer and the true producer of a service within a 
    virtualised bus. 

    
  
    

    
Steve 
    

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
From: 
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Sent: 06 December 
    2005 19:09 

    
To: 
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Cc: 
     

    
Subject: RE: 
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I agree with Ken. 
    

    
  
    

    
The service 
    consumer is the key concept that indicates the entity that invoked the 
    service in the first place. 

    
  
    

    
A brokering service 
    or service actor is merely a middle-man. 

    
  
    

    
Wes 
    

    
-----Original 
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From: Ken Laskey 
    [mailto:] 

    
Sent: December 6, 
    2005 2:02 PM 

    
To: 
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    ; ; ; 
     

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: RE: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
I could argue that 
    a broker consumes the service on someone else's behalf.  In reality, 
    service actor seems too nondescriptive because either the consumer or the 
    provider can be thought of as an actor. 

    
  
    

    
Ken 
    

    
  
    

    
At 01:45 PM 
    12/6/2005,  wrote: 

    
  
    

    
I hate to stir 
    things up a bit, but can you change the service consumer term to service 
    actor? 

    
Since in the case 
    of brokering the service actor is not consuming but brokering a request to 
    another service. 

    
The broker service 
    can be a service actor upon the service but might not really consume any 
    part of the service since it is a pass through. 

    
  
    

    
But I guess this is 
    a matter of opinion. 

    
  
    

    
- Dan 
    

    
-----Original 
    Message----- 

    
From: Ken Laskey [ 
    mailto:] 

    
Sent: Tuesday, 
    December 06, 2005 10:39 AM 

    
To: Duane Nickull; 
    Goran Zugic; Matt MacKenzie; MATHEWS, Tim; Sally St. Amand; 
     

    
Cc: 
     

    
  
    

    
Subject: RE: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
I think we need to 
    add some words to the RM to capture this discussion.  We cover part of 
    this in the beginning of Section 3.2.1 but need to be more specific that: 
    

    
  
    

    
- a service 
    consumer can be a human or a software agent; 

    
  
    

    
- a service 
    consumer can invoke any number of services (including a single service in 
    isolation) and can chain the output of some services to act as the input of 
    others; 

    
  
    

    
- from the 
    perspective of a given service, the occurrence of such chaining would not be 
    visible; 

    
  
    

    
- the service 
    consumer can be implementing a business process; 

    
  
    

    
- the specific of a 
    business process do not change the basic SOA concepts as described in the 
    RM; however, the specific architecture that one designs and implements will 
    reflect the business process and make use of specific service instances that 
    corresponds to the real world effects that the business process hopes to 
    realize. 

    
  
    

    
Now that said, and 
    in full appreciation that we agreed earlier that mechanisms which combine 
    services (e.g. choreography, orchestration) are out of scope, is it 
    sufficient for words, such as those suggested above, to be included 
    somewhere within the current discussion or do we need to pull it out into a 
    subsection on its own?  As an example of the former, we tried to deal 
    with loose-coupling and coarse-grained with words at the end of Section 2.1. 
    

    
  
    

    
Ken 
    

    
At 12:23 PM 
    12/6/2005, Duane Nickull wrote: 

    
  
    

    
Goran: 
    

    
  
    

    
I slightly disagree 
    with your assertions, probably based on semantics.  For a service to 
    "participate" in a process, it would have to be aware of the process (which 
    many will not be).  A better way to depict this may be to state 
    "services may be aggregated and used by processes" and "processes may be 
    represented/exposed as services".  There are really no limits to the 
    number of layers that can be present.  Attached is a UML CVD depicting 
    such. 

    
  
    

    
A key rationale of 
    why process is not part of SOA is that services cannot see process.  
    They are not aware of whether they are being called as part of a process vs. 
    as an individual service.  If the "s" part of SOA cannot see or touch 
    that, it cannot be part of the RM. 

    
  
    

    
The chicken and egg 
    discussion you bring forward is a requirement for those building services to 
    strongly consider the business process when designing their service 
    infrastructure.  Accordingly, it is not really part of the RM for SOA 
    yet I agree that it is a very important consideration. 

    
  
    

    
For your messages 
    to get to the list, you must join as a "applicant" rather than an "observer" 
    as per OASIS process. 

    
  
    

    
Duane 
    

    
  
    

    
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From: Goran Zugic [ 
    mailto:] 

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 05, 2005 8:47 PM 

    
To: Duane Nickull; 
    Matt MacKenzie; MATHEWS, Tim; Sally St. Amand;  
    

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: Re: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
Duane, 
    

    
  
    

    
Thanks for the 
    response. Yes I would like to see the PPT. I hope you do not mind if I add 
    few more thoughts related to services and business processes: 
    

    
  
    

    
Services 
    participate in a business process to add some value to it. They can be 
    governed and evaluated using business process metrics. One service can 
    participate in many business processes and provide value to each of them 
    according to the context within that process. As far as SOA is concerned it 
    is as important to know what the service does, how it can be discovered, 
    contacted, invoked, executed, etc. as it is to be able to use it within the 
    process context, measure it and assess its value from the business process 
    requirements point of view. SOA needs to avoid typical new technology 
    chicken and egg syndrome, e.g. companies not producing services because 
    there are no service friendly process definitions to use them and not having 
    SOA friendly process definitions because there are no services to use. 
    Services do not have to know if they will be involved in the process 
    upfront, they will be contacted on demand according to the process script 
    that is in effect, and they will be contacted, checked if available, passed 
    the arguments, collected the response and according to their procedure left 
    alone to wait for another call. The process execution engine however needs 
    to invoke the service according to both service specific information and the 
    process specific information. 

    
  
    

    
Having just the 
    service specific information in a model covers only one part of the picture 
    and I think it is fine as long as that model is a pure service model. 
    However I find it difficult to understand that the SOA RM TC model is a SOA 
    reference model when it does not include other concepts of SOA. 
    Unfortunately it seems that we cannot get to the point where we could agree 
    on a minimal set of supported SOA concepts by a model to be the SOA RM.  We do not have to and I do 
    not want to argue with you or anybody else in SOA RM TC. I am just trying to 
    see how our works can fit together in a most efficient way. We obviously 
    need more time to better understand each others thoughts and ideas and I 
    strongly believe that a constructive respectable discussion is helpful for 
    everybody. 

    
  
    

    
By the way, do you 
    know what I am supposed to do to get my messages to the SOA RM list. In 
    spite of that I am the SOA RM TC observer I get a faliure notice whenever I 
    send a note to the SOA RM.  

    
  
    

    
Goran 
    

    
  
    

    
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    Message ----- 

    
From: Duane Nickull 
    

    
To: Matt MacKenzie 
    ;  ; MATHEWS, Tim ; Sally St. Amand ; 
     

    
Cc: 
     

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 05, 2005 5:02 PM 

    
Subject: RE: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
Goran: 
    

    
  
    

    
The service layer 
    enables the process layer over top of it, however during runtime, services 
    do not know if they are part of a process or being called individually (it 
    would generally be a bad idea to try to maintain the overall state of a 
    process within each service, although it could be done).  For maximum 
    repurposing of services, it would be better to have the service as a simple 
    slave to the processes that may use it.  

    
  
    

    
Accordingly, we 
    made a decision that BPM, Orchestration, choreography is not a core part of 
    the RM for SOA.  We generally seem to agree that many SOA 
    implementations will include a layer of BPM over top.  We are only 
    addressing the SOA model, not the model for the underlying or overarching 
    layers. 

    
  
    

    
I have a PPT that 
    explains this in more detail if you are interested. 

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
Duane 
    

    
  
    

    
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From: Matt 
    MacKenzie [ mailto:] 

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 05, 2005 12:51 PM 

    
To: 
    ; MATHEWS, Tim; Sally St. Amand; 
     

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: RE: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
Process orientation 
    is only one of multiple potential integration with service oriented 
    architecture.  SOA-RM is laying the foundation for durable architecture 
    based on the core concept of service orientation.  We recognize that 
    process oriented architecture is a natural fit with service 
    orientation...but so are things like event orientation. 

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
-matt 
    

    
  
    

    
From: 
     [ mailto:] 
    

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 05, 2005 3:36 PM 

    
To: MATHEWS, Tim; 
    Matt MacKenzie; Sally St. Amand;  
    

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: Re: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    

    
  
    

    
I think that SOA RM 
    has done good job documenting well-known service related concepts and 
    defining some new ones. 

    
  
    

    
I do not see other 
    details besides service and service-related concept definitions in the 
    current SOA RM committee draft right now. I look forward to seeing the 
    completion of the model you are working on with the bottom-up approach. 
    

    
Business, business 
    processes and collaboration aspects of business are important to address in 
    the model what is not the case with the current content of the SOA RM 
    committee draft. By a business process I mean a generic business process 
    entity which has common components (activities, decisions, etc) and 
    relationships between them that can be used to model a business process in 
    any environment regardless of what business we support and technology we 
    use. I agree with Sally that a link between business processes and services 
    should be one of key requirements any SOA reference model should try to 
    meet. 

    
  
    

    
I am not sure what 
    SOA with services brings to business when the link between the business 
    processes and services and overall business process semantics in the SOA 
    context are not considered to be important aspects in a SOA-based reference 
    model. 

    
  
    

    
Goran 
    

    
-----Original 
    Message----- 

    
From: MATHEWS, Tim 
    [ mailto:] 

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 5, 2005 12:34 PM 

    
To: 'Matt 
    MacKenzie', 'Sally St. Amand',  
    

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: RE: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    "Componentization" 

    
Matt - I am not 
    sure what point you are trying to make by this?  I agree with your 
    premise of a bottom up effort, as this was one of the operating assumptions 
    that was made from the beginning. 

    
  
    

    
But, I am confident 
    it is the business environment that is independent from the reference model. 
    

    
  
    

    
TM 
    

    
  
    

    
From: Matt 
    MacKenzie [ mailto:] 

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 05, 2005 11:58 AM 

    
To: Sally St. 
    Amand;  

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: RE: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    "Componentization" 

    
Sally, 
    

    
  
    

    
A reference model 
    actually needs to be a bottom up effort.  We leave the ever so popular 
    ?top-down? approach to folks like ebSOA J 

    
  
    

    
We?re creating a 
    vocabulary and general understanding of what I hope we can call a discipline 
    of computer science in the future.  This means, we need a durable 
    reference model that is not dependent on the current business environment. 
    

    
  
    

    
-matt 
    

    
  
    

    
From: Sally St. 
    Amand [ mailto:] 

    
Sent: Monday, 
    December 05, 2005 10:19 AM 

    
To: 
     

    
Cc: 
     

    
Subject: Re: 
    [soa-rm] Proposal: Reorganization of SOA-RM Draft for Better 
    "Componentization" 

    
  
    

    
Frank 
    

    
  
    

    
This is in response 
    to your request on last week?s conference call, if anyone has comments speak 
    now. I also think that the recent comments on clarifying sections are a 
    reflection of my issues with the specification. 

    
  
    

    
I agree with the 
    majority of points made/described in ver 10. My issues are with what is not 
    in this draft. Based on Fig 1 the Refe! rence Model is guided by Reference 
    Architectures, Concrete Architectures, Profile & Related Models. They in 
    turn account for requirements, motivation & goals. This is creating a 
    Reference Model from the bottom up. I believe a Reference Model should 
    reflect a top down approach. 

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
The Reference Model 
    needs to reflect the environment, the strategy and the priorities of the 
    business/mission/collaboration.  This will impact the construction of 
    services. A service is a business task or activity that is realized through 
    technology. The draft does a good job of describing how that realization 
    happens. But it doesn?t provide a sufficient link between processes and 
    services. The draft makes the point that the central focus of! SOA is the 
    task of business function?getting something done. A business process is made 
    up of tasks and activities to achieve a goal (getting something done). The 
    concept of creating the service from the tasks and activities in a process 
    is important. For example, where on the continuum of fine grained to coarse 
    grained should a particular service be; this will affect interaction, 
    reusability. The relationship between processes and services needs to be in 
    the Reference Model. 

    
  
    

    
While I saw that 
    there is a note saying the glossary is still in flux, since one of the 
    objective of the Reference Model is a vocabulary, having less in the 
    glossary might be a better option. Is semantic integration a guiding 
    principle of SOA? 

    
  
    

    
With respect to 
    conformance there needs to be business results. That is an SOA should 
    provide demonstrable mission accomplishments, e.g. ROI, match a competitors 
    distribution channel. SOA is not a technology. Conformance should provide 
    operational accomplishments, these should be measurable. 

    
  
    

    
Sally 
    

    
  
    

    
  
    

    
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