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There is a huge amount of activity in the area of Service Oriented Architecture - judging from vendors, analysts, conferences, the media, and other standards organizations such as OASIS. Although there is a gap between the promise of the evangelists, which talks in terms of business-driven agility and enterprise architecture and most of the activity which is focused on technical interoperability based on web services. Yet there seems to have been no externally-visible OMG activity in the 'SOA' space (which is not to deny that existing OMG standards are applicable). SOA is ripe for use of MDA, in that SOA has: - a lot of ad-hoc approaches, experience and products that make this a practical not a research area - very rapidly changing platform (both in standards and products); - an intent (not well realized) of developing business-oriented services that are hence more reusable and longer-lived; - the promise of a higher level of abstraction in application development - the need to integrate services into Event Driven Architectures (EDA)- see http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/bpm-resources/group96435.adp - (presumably) the need to manage the Architecture of such systems and enterprises Potentially this spans many different areas of OMG, for example: - MARS with respect to the platform services, including registries - ADTF with respect to modeling techniques for services, architectures and related abstractions - BMI (formerly BEI) with respect to service orchestration, but just as importantly with providing the traceability to the business - Ontology SIG with respect to applying semantic richness to web service definition - Agents SIG with respect to EDA and sense-and-respond - Domain Task Forces with respect to standardizing specific Services

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