Description
A SvcV-3a enables a quick overview of all the system-to-service resource interactions specified in one or more SvcV-1 Services Context Description models. The SvcV-3a provides a tabular summary of the system and services interactions specified in the SvcV-1 Services Context Description for the Architectural Description. This model can be useful in support existing systems that are transitioning to provide services. The matrix format supports a rapid assessment of potential commonalities and redundancies (or, if fault-tolerance is desired, the lack of redundancies).
The SvcV-3a can be organized in a number of ways to emphasize the association of system-to-service interactions in context with the architecture’s purpose.
The intended usage of the SvcV-3a includes:
- Summarizing system and service resource interactions.
- Interface management.
- Comparing interoperability characteristics of solution options.
Implementation
SvcV-3a can be represented using a SvcV-3a diagram which is an editable Dependency Matrix.
The SvcV-3a provides a tabular summary of the system and services interactions specified in the SvcV-1 Services Context Description. Each Resource Interaction listed in the SvcV-3a table should be traceable to Operational Exchange listed in the corresponding OV-3 Operational Resource Flow Matrix. Each Resource Interaction may relate to a known Function (from SvcV-4 Services Functionality Description) that produces or consumes it. Exchange Elements as well as the other type of Resource Interaction Items are exchanged by Service Providers and Service Requesters represented in SvcV-6 Services Resource Flow Matrix.