THE IMPACT OF VOCABULARIES ON END USER SOA STRATEGIES

Session Abstract

• 4/25 (Monday) 3:15 PMINDUSTRY PANEL: THE IMPACT OF VOCABULARIES ON END USER SOA STRATEGIES

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are considered by many to be the solution for a myriad of challenges faced by today's IT organizations. This year's OASIS Symposium will feature a panel of users from major companies who will share overviews of their companies' SOA plans/initiatives. They also will address the current challenges faced in understanding, creating, and implementing an SOA strategy and how the various industry vocabularies impact these plans.

Panel Agenda In Brief• Introduction

– Welcome– Introducing the panel– Review key definitions

• SOA Initiative Overviews• Theme: Business v. Technology

– Business benefits of SOA– Vocabularies– Security– Governance– Global implications– Internal v. External– Architecture Strategy– Existing apps– Heterogeneous v. Homogeneous

• OASIS & Other Standards Bodies• Q&A

The Panelists

• Kathryn Breininger, Boeing

• Bob Roth, Cendant

• John Jackson, GM

• Rafael Martinez, JP Morgan Chase

• John Nida, Lockheed Martin

Our Definitions

• Vocabulary – collection of metadata describing tag names, types, structure & sometimes process for data interchange; aka: language, dictionary

• Registry – a store for metadata and policies, possibly including vocabularies

• Metadata – examples: an XML Schema, a security entitlement

• Intermediary – a hardware or software proxy deployed between systems to provide services, example: SOAP intermediary

• SOA – service oriented architecture

Examples of Vocabularies

• RosettaNet – www.rosettanet.org

• UBL – www.oasis-open.org

• ACORD – www.acord.org

• FIXml – www.fixprotocol.org

• IFX – www.ifxforum.org

• MDDL – www.mddl.org

Vertical v. Horizontal Standards

Payload Payload Payload Payload

Transport

Message

MDDL, XBRL, FIXML, RIXML, FpML, ACORD etc.

BPEL4WS, WS-Transaction

WS-Security, SAML, XML Encryption, XML Digital Signatures

SOAP

HTTP, MQ, MSMQ, COM

Security

Transaction

Horizontal

Vertical Vertical Vertical Vertical