Service Modeling Language

On the one hand, this seems like a somewhat arbitrary name change – from System Defintion Model to Service Modeling Language. And the use of the term “Service” instead of “System” seems sketchy to me.

On the other hand, you gotta love this line from the press release: “The group plans to submit the draft specification to an industry standards organization later this year.” Given the companies involved in “the group” – MSFT, IBM, BEA, Sun, Dell, BMC, Cicso, Intel, HP and EMC – you gotta think SML has a bright future.

Here’s hoping that publishing the SML spec is the first step in a public-workshop-based revision process, a la the Web Services Protocol Workshops.

This entry was posted by DevHawk on July 31, 2006. It was posted in Architecture. It was tagged Modelling.

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And meanwhile in the OMG parallel universe.. SysML was born. As I have commented on my blog, is this solving a problem that anyone has ?
This comment was posted by Piyush on August 02, 2006 at 12:00 AM.
I agree that the term "Service" is highly overloaded in our industry, but the name change was not arbitrary. The name "Service Modeling Language" was chosen because we expect that this modeling language will be used for building models of business and IT services and using these models to drive the complete lifecycle of these services (design, deployment, on-going management, etc.). The use of "Service" in SML is consistent with the use of "Service" in the IT Infrastructure library (ITIL) standard.
This comment was posted by Pratul on August 05, 2006 at 12:35 PM.

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