WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.5 delivers the following new features and benefits:

• New and enhanced Business Space widgets simplify the publication and governance of your services and increase visibility.
  • The new Service Registry Navigator widget allows gives users the ability to quickly browse registry content visually, giving a one-upstream and one-downstream view of related content.
  • The Collection View widget is enhanced to allow the creation of new views that you configure with a wizard. You specify a single query or an aggregation of multiple queries to create different Watch Lists, which can appear on your space as separate widgets or in the view menu of a single Collection View widget.
  • The Collection View widget now has an icon mode that enables you to browse the collection result by icons, enabling quicker recognition of the content type for which you are looking.
  • The Service Registry Actions widget now enables you to configure your own actions, allowing your governance process to be more prescriptive for your users.
  • The Details Widgets has many enhancements. You can now use this to configure use visibility of properties for each registry type and to group those properties into custom sections. You can determine which classification taxonomies should be displayed to the user. You can also determine if a property is visible on creation. The visibility of relationships can also be configured, and custom queries can be included as relationships. This allows you to have focused content for each user role.
  • The new Service Registry Graphical Explorer widget gives impact analysis of the registry content in visual form with icons that represent the different types of content that exist in the registry repository. This allows for rapid understanding of all the relationships.
  • The new Activity widget offers an efficient way to keep track of the changes that have been made and those responsible for making the changes.
• Extensive enhancements have been made in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository's report hosting capabilities. A new reporting servlet enables reports to be hosted in the Business Space Web Site widget, allowing you to quickly view your reports in the context of your WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Business Space. You are also able to view reports outside the context Business Spacel.
• The new space templates for Business Space give a preconfigured, roles based starting point for your governance process. You can use these space templates as is, extend, or modify them to suit your end users' needs.
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.5 extends its search capabilities to include full text search with the ability to enhance the precision of the search with such things as conditional terms and ranges.
• Governance processes are unique to a company's structure and the processes change over time as a company changes. Because of this, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is flexible and configurable to handle these changes. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.5 has focused on the ease to which companies can tailor their service governance with improvements to WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio.
  • The new Access Control Editor in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio makes it easier to define roles and permissions for those roles.
  • There have also been major enhancements to governance policy authoring and attachment. These enhancements include click-to-assign life cycles to entities modeled in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio and a WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Role Assertion wizard to help assign assertions to life cycle transitions. In addition, a new Governance Policy Editor allows for the graphical construction of Policy Rules.
• The upgrade and migration functionality has been improved allowing for smooth upgrades from WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 6.3 and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 7.0 and enables data manipulation from one WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 7.5 instance to another. The improvements include a web UI which displays feedback on how the upgrade is progressing.
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 7.5 sees the introduction of SCA Service Endpoints to represent governable non-WebServices export bindings; these appear, and are controlled, in the same way as SOAP Service Endpoints. It also introduces the ability to override the values of SCA exposed endpoints directly from the web UI to allow for easier promotion to run-time environments. Additionally, the 7.5 InfoCenter features a new tutorial explaining how to govern SCA objects using the Governance Enablement Profile both from the service provider's and service consumer's viewpoint.
• The subscription notification framework previously only available for "email" type notifications, has been enhanced with support for the following new features:
  • Http POST endpoint notifications which allows a post to user defined web servlets.
  • Enhanced subscription matching capabilities enable matching subscription targets by XPath, related objects, attached policies and saved searches.
  • Custom notifier plugin capability allows users to create their own type of notifier. For example SMS message notifier to alert when a service needs approval.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 7.5 provides the following new features and benefits for integration:

• The approval process solution enhancements in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository v7.5 enlists the power of WebSphere Business Process Management (BPM) portfolio to provide advanced, flexible and configurable approval workflows based on majority voting pattern. Enhanced integration provides the capabilities of multiple groups participating in governance decisions for approvals. Integration with an existing WebSphere Business Monitor enables various human centric approval related key performance indicators (KPIs). Work Basket based assignment support can classify governance approvals into logical worklists to enable collaborative decision making.
• The new WebSphere Message Broker policy analytics provide metrics on policy set enforcement outcomes. This data provides customers with a detailed inspection of the distribution of WS-Security policy enforcement outcomes across their deployed broker run time systems
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.5 can now author and attach policies to services that exploit IBM's distributed caching products, WebSphere eXtreme Scale and WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance. A very significant part of our Caching in the SOA Connectivity initiative is a policy driven cache management system supporting improved response times for our customer's SOA Connectivity solutions.
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.5 license has been extended to include the ability to install WebSphere Service Registry and Repository into the IBM Websphere Integration Developer Unit Test Environments to allow unit testing with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server.