The Open Group has recently released a draft version of a SOA ontology. They have been developing a formal ontology for SOA for some time now. You can find the ontology described in OWL-DL also. This should give the ontology a more complete level of description.
Open Group explains the benefits as:
1. It defines the concepts, terminology and semantics of SOA in both business and technical terms, in order to:
Create a foundation for further work in domain-specific areas,
Enable communications between business and technical people,
Enhance the understanding of SOA concepts in the business and technical communities, and
Provide a means to state problems and opportunities clearly and unambiguously to promote mutual understanding.
2. It potentially contributes to model-driven SOA implementation. The ontology is designed for use by:
Business people, to give them a deeper understanding of SOA, and its use in the enterprise;
Architects, as metadata for architectural artifacts; and
Architecture methodologists, as a component of SOA metamodels.
The full draft can be found here:
Tags: Enterprise Architecture
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