Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer"

["Gregory A. Kohring" <kohring@ccrl-nece.de>]

Matthew,

OK, here a fewer other choices which might be deemed more
"respectful"...

Service Consumer:

1) End-user of a service.

2) An agent which, acting on behalf of its owner, uses a service.

3) An entity which utilizes a service

4) An entity which consumes the product or information produced by a
    service.


Note all of these definitions depend upon the definition of the
term "service".  Have we agreed on this already? Perhaps we should
start there first...


-- Greg



Matthew MacKenzie wrote:
> I think services deserve respect, lets try not to exploit them :-)
> 
> Gregory A. Kohring wrote:
> 
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Perhaps one should use a somewhat broader definition which captures
>> the human user as well:
>>
>> Service Consumer: An entity which exploits a service.
>>
>>
>> -- Greg
>>
>>
>> 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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