15: Resources Management
Establish resource identity and manage those resources. Other Information:
All too often, technology resources are seen as a means to an end, artifacts that are used to accomplish a particular problem
at hand and thus something transient to be disposed of at the end of a particular cycle. As systems become more complex and
organizations mature, resource re-use becomes ever more important and prevalent. Technology resources need to be managed as
much as any other resource. Technology resources are increasingly re-used beyond the scope of their original intended use.
This is to be encouraged. However, in order to be re-used effectively, resources need to be identified and managed by explicitly
designated owners and also be identifiable across ownership domains. The ability to identify a resource is important in system
interactions, in order to determine such things as rights and authorizations, as well as to understand what functions are
being performed; what the results mean. Within large-scale, SOA ecosystems, interactions take place across ownership boundaries
and the combination of interactions can be unpredictable. Identifiers provide the means for all resources important to a given
SOA system to be unambiguously identifiable at any moment and in any interaction. Establishing resource identity and subsequently
managing those resources and their identities thus become an important part technology management. Section 3.1.3 of the [SOA-RAF]
looks at the issue of resources and how they should be identified and managed.
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