by Thomas Usländer

KIT Scientific Publishing

5 Reference Model _____________________________________________________________________________________________ service characteristics in terms of reusable interfaces, for example, for the specification of their capabilities. Furthermore, standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organi- zation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) were ap- plied in the following way: - Although not applied identically, the RM-OA meta-model for services reuses some of the concepts and their relationships as identified in the W3C Web Services Architecture (W3C, 2004a). The Web Services Architecture identifies the functional components and defines the relationships among those com- ponents necessary to achieve the desired properties of the overall architecture. - The OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture (OASIS, 2006) (see also section 3.2.4) specifies the common characteristics of so-called “SOA execution contexts”, independent of a particular service platform im- plementation. The RM-OA assumes these characteristics as requirements for service platforms upon which a platform-neutral architecture may be

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