IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
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| Developer(s) | IBM |
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| Initial release | 6.0 [1] 20 October 2006 |
| Stable release | 7.0 [2]
/ 15 January 2010 |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | AIX, Windows, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, z/OS, IBM i, VMWare ESX / ESXi |
| Platform | x86, x86-64, PowerPC, SPARC, IA-64, zSeries |
| Available in | English, French, German,Brazillian-Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese [3] |
| Type | JEE Application |
| License | Commercial |
| Website | http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wsrr/ |
IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository [4] (WSRR) is a service registry for use in a Service-oriented architecture.
It runs as a Java Enterprise Application on IBM WebSphere Application Server.
It provides functionality to store and retrieve service-metadata. WSDL, XSD, SCA Modules and Policy documents can be loaded and parsed into seperate entities. For example with a WSDL document, seperate entities are created for service, binding, portType etc. XML and binary documents can be loaded as single entities. These entities can then be decorated with additional data in the form of properties, classifications and relationships. Classification systems defined in OWL are supported. Custom object types can be modelled in OWL such as service contracts, SLAs and SLDs.
Entities with the registry can be managed using lifecycles defined in SACL in order to provide service governance. The life cycle can track the state of a service, for example through Development, Test, QA and Production, allowing for approval and checks before moving to the next stage.
APIs
The product has Web service, JEE EJB and ATOM/REST based APIs for accessing and manipulating data within the registry.
UDDI synchronisation can be enabled to provide integration with products supporting the UDDI v3 API.
Extension points
Validators, Modifiers and Notifiers. There are defined extension points (similar to a User exit) which allow a custom piece of code to be run within the product when an event occurs. This could be when an object is created, updated or deleted, or when a transition occurs from one lifecycle state to another.
Integration
When combined with an ESB, can provide dynamic endpoint lookup. This allows services to be redirected based upon information retrieved from the registry. Supported ESB's include DataPower, WESB and WebSphere Message Broker.
Version history
Version 7.0
This release added Integration with Tivoli Change and Control Management Database, Name Queries, Business Space User Interface, ATOM support with ATOM classification and Configuration APIs further SCA bindings. Feature Packs with Service Federation Management (SFM) and further Business Space enhancements are available.
Version 6.3
This release added Websphere Service Registry and Repository Studio application for manipulating models and LIfe cycles using UML tooling. Service Discovery extended to Oracle WebLogic Server and JBoss Application Server. The Governance Enablement Profile was introduced which contains models, life cycles and support for best practices when governing Services using WSRR. An Advanced LifeCycle Edition offers Integration with Rational Asset Manager.
Version 6.2
Policy Management introduced including support for Policy Authoring, Policy definition to create and update policies for an extensible set of SOA policy domains, Web services interoperability (WS-I) compliance for standards-based interoperability policies. Service Discovery from Oracle Application Server and Service Discovery framework to allow plugins to be developed for discovery from any target environment.
Version 6.1
This release added Deployment Wizard, Graphical view of objects and relationships, Business modelling allowing you to represent the custom objects, Service Discovery, Scheduler framework, WSDL Parser Extension plugins, promotion, faceted search, auto suggest, REST interface and a governance profile.
Version 6.0.2
This release added UDDI Integration, Clustering Support, business Profile, configuration profiles, binary document support, Policy support Extensions, Load Documents Wizard, Binary Document Support, Eclipse User Interface, email notification Service.
Version 6.0
Inital release. Basic support for WSDL, XSD with a Web UI. Allows adding of properties, relationships and classifications.
References
- ^ WebSphere product lifecycle dates
- ^ IBM United States Software Announcement 209-294
- ^ http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.virtualimages.doc/info/ae/ae/welcome_virtual.html InfoCenter, Hardware and software requirements
- ^ IBM marketing website http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wsrr/