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Re: [ontolog-forum] The Open Group SOA Ontology

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From: Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:22:18 -0700
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Ed:    (01)

There are other differences between SOA and OO.  For starters, OO is a
programming level paradigm while SOA is an architectural plane model.  True
­ OO impact application architecture but generally, the consensus I have
seen tends to be that SOA has a higher scope than any single application.  I
donıt think it serves the community to mix the two up as they are meant for
different areas of focus.    (02)

Another difference is at runtime, objects typically need be be instantiated
and instrinsic knowledge of a specific environment is required (example ­
J2EE or .NET), even for RMI.  Consistent with REST principles, Services lie
in a state of readiness (assuming request-response patterns) and do not need
to be explicitly constructed by some known factory method.  SOA focuses on
additional concepts required to make interactions possible on larger than
single application scopes such as visibility, reachability, service
description, interaction models, behavior models, real world effects etc.
Now this can be argued both ways and it gets a little hard to quantify where
the exact lines are drawn.  Some principles of OO and SOA are, at some level
of abstraction, highly alike IMO.    (03)

One other aspect of SOA that is often ignored is the
³other-than-request-response² interaction patterns. I have published a white
paper here to try and help people think beyond RR.  It also explains some of
the concepts.    (04)

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=soa+white+paper&btnG=Goo
gle+Search    (05)

(click on the first link to Adobe to the PDF entitled ³Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and Specialized Messaging Patterns²    (06)

Duane    (07)


On 17/07/08 12:02 PM, "Ed Barkmeyer" <edbark@xxxxxxxx> wrote:    (08)

> Toby Considine wrote:
>> SOA at some level is nothing more than OO writ big (nothing new there!)
> 
> Duane Nickull wrote:
> 
>> I would consider this not quite true.  Service oriented architecture is a
>> paradigm for architecture (software or otherwise), that matches needs and
>> capabilities across multiple domains of ownership.  This makes it
>> substantially different from OO which is typically under one environment and
>> one domain of ownership.
> 
> I would never have said that "OO is typically under ... one domain of
> ownership".  Any set of software that is created under a single
> program-of-work is under one domain of ownership, regardless of its
> architectural paradigm.
> 
> But the whole idea of "interface presentation", "instantiation", and
> "encapsulation" (which are the heart of object-oriented technology) is
> that one domain of ownership can use things that were created in, and
> still owned by, another.  Lots of programmers write Java programs using
> open-source libraries that fit their needs.  And vendors write software
> tools to run in the Windows environment using off-the-shelf DLLs with
> documented (OO) interfaces.  And I assumed that these ideas are what
> Toby meant when he said SOA is OO writ big.
> 
> What forced the "single domain" behavior on CORBA and Java/RMI
> environments was the "broker"/"app server" concept.  But there is
> nothing OO about the broker/app-server concept; it was just an easy
> implementation architecture for earlier distributed systems.  I can
> agree that SOA is a departure from the server/broker *architecture*, but
> that part of the CORBA/Java architecture is not an OO property.
> 
> Once you generalize the "directory service" concept and provide some
> kind of "dynamic binding" capability, CORBA (3.0) and Java (J2EE) also
> supported interdomain interactions of autonomous agents.
> 
> I should say, BTW, that this problem of "portmanteau concepts" is a pet
> peeve of mine.  People regularly seem to confuse guiding principles with
> implementation choices in identifying the facets of a thing like SOA.
> This is also why someone else earlier said that SOA has nothing to do
> with "webservices" a la WSDL/SOAP -- the same principles can be applied
> in a J2EE implementation environment.
> 
> -Ed
> 
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