Category Archives: OASIS

SOA as a Dynamic Value Network

Posted on 18 October, 2012 by

Since the early days of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) appearing, I have argued that SOA is a paradigm rather than a specific approach to using technology. Evidence for this ought to be that technologies change but underlying paradigms do not (see … Continue reading →

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150 Years on from the Civil War – Taking standards to the next level

Posted on 12 April, 2011 by

OK, OK, I’ll admit the headline is stretching a point and a desperate bid for eyeballs on the 150th Anniversary of the opening shots on Fort Sumter… I ask only that you bear with me and keep in mind that … Continue reading →

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Government Transformation – what’s the deal with patterns?

Posted on 17 March, 2011 by

The OASIS technical committee working on a “Transformational Government Framework” (and on which I serve as an editor), reached an important milestone today – the vote to approve its first formal draft (URL will be posted once published), an important … Continue reading →

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OASIS Symposium – Round-table on Web Services and SOA

Posted on 17 April, 2007 by

In the work of the OASIS Reference Model for SOA, I and others repeatedly raised the issue of whether we should spell “web services” –upper case or lower case? For me, Upper case implies the WS-* stack of specifications, whereas … Continue reading →

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OASIS Symposium – Data Services

Posted on 17 April, 2007 by

Two papers, from Sri Gopolan (Booz Allen) and Murty Gurajada, looking at how SOA should also pay attention to how data is managed and moved around in orchestrated eService transactions – the idea of specific data services. I missed Sri’s … Continue reading →

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OASIS Symposium – SOA and Content-Centric Services

Posted on 17 April, 2007 by

Andrew Townsley from Archistry in Ireland presented on the need for a real paradigm shift in how SOA is used. With the continued growth in the proportion of the total workforce involved as “knowledge workers” (see McKinsey Quarterly, 2005 N°4), … Continue reading →

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OASIS Symposium – Web Security

Posted on 17 April, 2007 by

Excellent presentation from Rik Drummond and a simple and blindingly obvious message once you think about it: good technical standards are only technically good. If they are to be operationally good, then a whole host of organisational and management issues … Continue reading →

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OASIS Symposium – TC lightning rounds

Posted on 17 April, 2007 by

As the name suggests, a brief overview of the work in progress by a number of OASIS technical committees (4 minutes each – I can’t type that fast so won’t manage to capture the main points): OASIS Biometric Identity Assurance … Continue reading →

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OASIS Symposium – SOA and eGovernment Panel

Posted on 16 April, 2007 by

A short introduction with my take on the subject as part of a multi-presenter panel. I used my now much used slide of Jean-Luc Picard (see “Just make it SOA, Number One“) to get over the simple message about what … Continue reading →

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Personal Data Services?

Posted on 16 April, 2007 by

A number of speakers and many participants have been talking about the idea of a new OASIS initiative on “personal data services” – a number of us will meet at lunch tomorrow to discuss the strawman proposal that has been … Continue reading →

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