WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Handbook

Service-oriented architecture offers the promise of business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. These are realized by separating service descriptions from their implementations, and using this descriptive metadata across the service lifecycle.

Standards-based service metadata artefacts, such as Web Service Description Language, XML schema, policy or Service Component Architecture documents, capture the technical details of what a service can do, how it can be invoked, or what it expects other services to do. Semantic annotations and other metadata can be associated with these artefacts to offer insight to potential users of the service about how and when it can be used, and what purposes it serves.

IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) is the master metadata repository for service interaction endpoint descriptions. As the integration point of service metadata, WSRR establishes a central point for finding and managing service metadata. Once service metadata is placed in WSRR, visibility is controlled, versions are managed, proposed changes are analyzed and communicated, and usage is monitored.

This IBM Redbook discusses the architecture and functions of IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository along with sample integration scenarios that can be used as examples for implementing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository in a customer service-oriented architecture environment.

Part 1. SOA overview
Chapter 1. Introduction to SOA
Part 2. WSRR concepts and architecture
Chapter 2. Concepts and architecture
Chapter 3. Information model
Chapter 4. Interfaces and APIs
Chapter 5. SOA governance enablers
Part 3. Planning and installing WSRR
Chapter 6. Possible topologies
Chapter 7. Installing and deploying
Chapter 8. Administering WSRR
Part 4. Using WSRR
Chapter 9. Getting started with WSRR
Chapter 10. Customizing the Web UI
Chapter 11. Using the WSRR Eclipse plug-in
Chapter 12. Scenarios description
Chapter 13. Configuring governance
Chapter 14. Integrating WSRR with WebSphere ESB
Chapter 15. Integrating WSRR with ITCAM for SOA
Chapter 16. Integrating WSRR with WMB
Chapter 17. Integrating WSRR with CICS
Appendix A. IBM product descriptions
Appendix B. Additional material

• Understanding SOA Security Design and Implementation, SG24-7310-01
• Rational Application Developer V7 Programming Guide, SG24-7501-00
• Best Practices for SOA Management, REDP-4233-00

Publish Date
07 March 2007

Last Update
03 May 2007

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Author(s)

Byron Braswell is a is a Networking Professional at the ITSO, Raleigh Center. He received a bachelor's degree in Physics and a master's degree in Computer Sciences from Texas A&M University. He writes extensively in the areas of networking, application integration middleware, and personal computer software. Before joining the ITSO, Byron worked in IBM Learning Services Development in networking education development.

• Byron Braswell

Chris Dudley is a Software Engineer working in the Application Integration Middleware area for IBM Software Group in the U.K. After he received his degree in Civil Engineering in 1999, he joined IBM Software Group and worked on several IBM products including IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM WebSphere Message Broker. He worked in IBM Emerging Technology Services before joining the IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository development team at its inception in late 2005, where he has worked ever since.

• Chris Dudley

Laurent Rieu is an IT Architect working for the SOA Advanced Technology team (formerly known as Enterprise Integration Solutions) within IBM Software Group. As part of this worldwide team Laurent is acting as an EMEA Lead Solution Architect and is helping to drive and enhance IBM software strategy around service-oriented architecture through customer engagements, field-based development, asset harvesting, and thought leadership. He has eight years of experience in the IT industry and has been working at IBM for seven years in various industries, such as insurance, telecommunications, distribution, public sector, and utilities. Before joining IBM Software Group, Laurent worked for IBM Global Business Services. His areas of expertise are service-oriented architecture, business integration, Patterns, Web services, and J2EE platform. Before joining IBM, he worked for one year as Technical Support for SociŽtŽ GŽnŽrale in New York City, USA. He graduated (MS) from Ecole SupŽrieure d'ElectricitŽ in 1998.

• Laurent Rieu

Martin Smithson is a Senior IT Specialist working on the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository product at IBM laboratory in Hursley, England. He has 11 years of experience working in the IT industry, five of which he spent working as a technical consultant for the EMEA IBM Software Services for WebSphere team. His areas of expertise include the architecture, design, and development of J2EE applications; he is also an expert on IBM WebSphere Application Server. He has authored several developerWorks articles and co-authored several Redbooks: WebSphere Application Server V6 System Management and Configuration Handbook, SG24-6451, WebSphere Application Server V6.1: System Management and Configuration, SG24-7304, and CCF Connectors and Database Connections Using WebSphere Advanced Edition Connecting Enterprise Information Systems to the Web, SG24-5514. Martin also developed the IBM Client Application Tool for JMS that is available for download from IBM alphaWorks Web site.

• Martin Smithson

Tapan Verma is an Advisory IT Specialist at IBM Software Services for WebSphere in India. He has more than 10 years of experience in the IT Industry, five of those years working with IBM Software Group in India on WebSphere consultancy, designing, integration, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting. His areas of expertise include WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. He has product certifications on WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer and DB2. He also conducts training and workshops about WebSphere and related topics.

• Tapan Verma

ISBN

0738489972

IBM Form Number
SG24-7386-00

Number of pages
934