Re: [soa-rm-ra] Updated Service Description Diagram

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Title: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Updated Service Description Diagram

I don’t think showing that relationship adds anything given “Service Description” is fairly self explanatory.  Unless there is some trait of the “Description” base class that is inherited that we might not ordinarily otherwise assume, it might just be clutter.  By the same token, a modeler would not show a java package up to the first order of logic where everything inherits from the Object object.  Each modeler must carefully chose their frame based on the audiences ability to derive or infer semantics from the model.  

Duane


On 11/3/06 3:46 PM, "Ken Laskey" <klaskey@mitre.org> wrote:

> All,
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> My apologies for being sloppy.� Service is supposed to be Service Description.� This and Consumer Description were to inherit from a comon Description class.
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> Ken
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> On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Francis McCabe wrote:
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> > The diagram as a whole focuses on descriptions, not service itself. I believed that it was understood that a description is not a specialization of service, nor the other way around.
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> > However, if we are getting confused, then the diagram needs more work. Clearly.
> >
> > Frank
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> >
> > On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Duane Nickull wrote:
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> >  
> > > I don't think that is the correct relationship.� A description describes the
> > > service.� Neither is an instance of the other or inherits in any way.
> > >
> > > Duane
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> > >
> > > On 11/3/06 9:57 AM, "Jeffrey A. Estefan" <jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov>
> > > wrote:
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> > >  
> > > > Frank,
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> > > > Then we need to update the diagram to reflect "Service Description" inherits
> > > > from "Description" and not "Service" inherits from "Description" as
> > > > currently shown.
> > > >
> > > > �- Jeff
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