"Industry Analysis Report" from Everware-CBDi on "n Search of a Common SOA Language"

Title: "Industry Analysis Report" from Everware-CBDi on "n Search of a Common SOA Language"

SOA-RM'ers:

I receive the monthly newsletter from CBDi and usually find much useful and insightful information.  I was disappointed to receive this month's newsletter with the following headline "in Search of a Common SOA Language."  The article starts out with "we believe that a widely accepted reference model for SOA will accelerate the take up of SOA, since tool vendors and practitioners will have a more solid and common base to work from." 

As part of the reference model landscape, the following sources were analyzed: 

W3C Web Services Architecture

OASIS SOA-Reference Model

IBM UML 2.0 Profile for Software Services

OpenGroup Open SOA Ontology

UK Ministry of Defence Ministry of Defence Architectural Framework Metamodel

Everware-CBDi "A Meta Model for Service Architecture and Engineering"

I'm working through the article in a bit more depth today....but would welcome a discussion on this list on the validity of the strengths and weaknesses that were identified. 

The full article can be found at:  http://www.cbdiforum.com/bronze/journal/2007-01/in_search_common_soa_language.php

Rebekah