Re: Introducing myself - SOA organised with RDF

McBride, Brian wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> My name is Brian McBride and I work in the Semantic Web group at HPLabs
> in Bristol UK. We have been working on Semantic Web technology since
> around 2000 and I have a particular interest in application to IT
> systems inside enterprises, a class that includes government
> organizations.  I'm writing because we seem to have a common interest
> and views. 
>
> [...]
>
>   
>> It was clear to me from the beginning that a SOA soon will 
>> turn into another tower of babel, unless there's a clear 
>> strategy to normalize the contents flowing on the service 
>> bus, and to address the issues of versioning and development 
>> in knowledge.
>>     
>
> That is my view too - though I don't have a lot of evidence I can point
> to in support of it.  This is a great opportunity for Semantic Web
> technology.
>
> ...
> Brian
>   
Existing SOA is broken because it is only half-decoupled, it is argument 
or XML based (i.e. RPC) rather than RDF or RDF rich query (RDF, rules, 
remote queries), it is usually synchronous, half-duplex, RPC-styled, and 
layering that may be non-optimal.  Not only is there a tower of babel 
problem to some extent up front, but resulting applications are fragile 
due to procedural back-end coupling.

We have a Knowledge Oriented Architecture (KOA) that is fully decoupled 
(both "front" and "back" side), rule-driven, and RDF metadata and 
knowledge driven.  We have been exploring a number of architectural 
ideas in this area for large clients.  A public version is planned.

sdw