Once built and deployed to a production environment, their
physical collaboration would yield a ???data aggregator engine??? that provides four services: categorization
(which is offered by the depicted taxonomy manager), meta-data manager, data collector,
and data cleanser.
Generalization Process that Leads to Common Language. Why are architectural concepts so
vital to service-oriented architectural initiatives? Remember, architectural abstractions are the
essence of the tangible and underlying technology. Just as services were conceptualized and
private instances were generalized during the service conceptualization process, the requirement
now is to pursue a similar type of generalization. This simplification process will assist communicating
with software construction teams and in facilitating the establishment of a common
Data Collector
Meta-Data
Manager
Taxonomy
Manager
Data Cleanser
EXHIBIT 15.8 ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS LAYERED EXAMPLE
318 Ch. 15 Service-Oriented Conceptual Architecture Modeling Principles
language across the organization. This architectural concept identification process typically leads
to the development of an enterprise technological vocabulary. It also assists in filling in the
communication gaps between the organization??™s problem domain and the solution domain. Thus,
this potent language is used to explain the direction of the planned architecture and to articulate
organizational technological imperatives.
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