RE: Proposed replacement text for Section 1.6

Well, some of the concepts the grid community deals with are object IDs, object factories, and object attributes that you can get and set. That sounds more object-oriented-ish to me than SOA-ish.

Ugo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Bijan Parsia
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:03 PM
> To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed replacement text for Section 1.6
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 12, 2004, at 6:10 PM, He, Hao wrote:
> 
> > I think grid computing can also benefit significantly if 
> they take a 
> > more
> > SOA approach.
> >
> > My personal observation is that the research community is 
> relatively 
> > slow on
> > adopting new IT concepts for good or bad. I was still doing Fortran
> > programming not long ago.
> 
> Er...the Grid itself is at least somewhat new :) And Fortran both 
> evolved and isn't clearly sensibly replaceable in a lot of contexts.
> 
> How could they be more SOAy? What ways *aren't* they SOAy and at what 
> cost?
> 
> I confess to being a bit vague on Grid details, but they seem 
> eminently 
> SOAish.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan Parsia.
> 
>