My Intent...

Both Jorgen Thelin and Mark Baker referenced a recent posting of mine Glad to hear... They both brought up some good points that make it worth a revisit. To help Mark I will tie it back to an aspect of web services and/or REST depending on which side of the debate you fall on.

I feel architecture by intent is best applied to system level problems rather than individual components. An ideal place to apply it is considering the intent of a service in a service orientated architecture. A major issue in designing services is the appropriate level of granularity to expose, one rule of thumb is that it should be explainable in business objectives rather than technology. A good measure of the business objectives are the intent of the service.

Semantic Web....

The Semantic Web has been getting discussion again - one of the more interesting is Spontaneous intelligence and the Semantic Web by Phil Wainewright where he calls into question the AI aspect of the semantic web. The semantic web, like many other approaches before it, will not create intelligence but will organization information better to enable us to draw more intelligent conclusions. Though if we do not have the good analytical thinkers to use the information....