Oasis: introduction of SOA reference model

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[] [Rich Seeley] [techtarget]

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 1.0 reference models have been identified and will be implemented as a standard through the oasis vote. On Monday, a spokesman for the standard-setting organization confirmed this and the official announcement will be published later this week.

The SOA reference model (SOA-RM) will accurately define those technical standards for developers and architects. The introduction of this reference model will also establish strict standards for the evaluation of SOA technology products, and it is expected that market merchants who simply use the SOA concepts to promote the latest products of the manufacturers will no longer simply use advanced concepts. confuse users.

According to the OASIS Technical Committee responsible for SOA reference model work, this model is an abstract framework used to understand this advanced technical concept and an important connection method in the service-oriented environment, it is an important development process of gradual standardization of standards and a detailed specification of service support. It is based on the purpose of unified SOA and is an important basis for architects to guide SOA and practice and discuss SOA during the development process.

SOA reference models are not "combined with other relevant standards, technologies, or any other existing implementation specifications". The Committee explains this, more accurately, it appears to "use the most consistent standard specification to clearly define different executions ".

However, Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst from zapthink, said that the key to developers looking for SOA implementation may still start with other aspects.

"The Oasis SOA reference model provides an overall abstract framework for users to integrate distributed configurations," Jason Bloomberg said. "Basically, this model can help Enterprise Architects effectively perform SOA work. The biggest challenge that can be faced is that this SOA reference model is too abstract. It can provide a very global overall framework for guidance in the overall SOA plan of an enterprise, but it cannot provide too many feasible opinions in actual SOA implementation ."

Duane nickull, a senior strategy analyst from Adobe Systems in the past 16 months working on the SOA reference model technical committee, said that although the reference model was too abstract, however, it is indeed used in SOA implementation.

"One of the key processes in the OASIS Organization that ultimately become a standard through member consent is that the standard needs to be applied and tested in the enterprise like a product ." "The reference model was approved with higher requirements," he said ."

Even if there are still some opposing opinions on the accurate definition of SOA, nickull firmly states that the introduction of the SOA reference model will be a positive step in the entire SOA development process. "The reason why people are willing to express their different views on SOA is that the current SOA Architecture concept cannot be fully and accurately defined. People can say," When I talk about SOA, what I mean is ...... . Under such circumstances, we need a model that can be used to describe such an architecture ."