WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository delivers the foundation for enabling service lifecycle governance as part of the IBM service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance. As customers adopt effective SOA solutions, the need to proactively govern the service lifecycle through prescriptive capabilities offered by WebSphere Service Registry and Repository becomes important. Additional capabilities in the area of associating policies with services become an essential part of service lifecycle management and governance. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository also integrates and complements numerous solutions from IBM, as well as external solutions from business partners, including:

• Enhanced connectivity by increasing runtime flexibility of applications integrated using the enterprise service bus (ESB)-related products including WebSphere DataPower, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), WebSphere Message Broker.
• Optimized use of services in SOA by exchanging rich service information with runtime monitoring tools and operational data stores, including IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for SOA and IBM Tivoli Change Configuration Management Database.
• Enabled governance and lifecycle management of customer high-value applications, such as WebSphere MQ, and CICS.
• Enabled policy management across the SOA lifestyle, spanning various domains of policies.
• Ability to integrate across Business Process Management solution as a foundation for service governance and metadata.

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

• The Business Space User Interface now supports the full development lifecycle by including two new roles.
  • Developer: A new developer space is available including Web Services Description Language (WSDL) loading.
  • Operations: An operations space is now included allowing endpoint manipulation.

As before, these space templates can be used as is, extend, or modify them to suit your users' needs.

• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository now supports authoring and management of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) which can then be automatically enforced by DataPower.
• Authoring of Mediation Policy, examples:
  • Describe how many messages per second a service will support before throttling.
  • Define a set of hours in the day that the service will be available.
• Attachment of policies to services
• The new Service Consumption Visualizer gives you a quick-to-use, graphical view of consumers and providers for a service.
• New load documents wizard loads documents and resolve dependencies.
• The actions and details widgets are now enhanced with icons.
• Actions widget now supports website launching to link to external tools and websites.
• The Collection widget now supports instance specific settings, allowing you to configure it for each space individually.
• Enhanced messages from Governance Policy Validators (GPVs) allow users to identify actions to correct more quickly.
• New interactive hover preview card allow you to see more details of an object without having to click through to its detail view.
• Tabular Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) reports can now be embedded in detail views allowing you to construct complex data queries to be displayed in line.
• Enhanced Chart Widget with the following options are available in pie chart, bar graph, or tabular form:
  • Service reuse
  • Service level definitions (SLDs) governance state
  • My Items
  • Services by owning organization
  • Documents by type
  • Services by governance state
  • Number of versions per business capability
  • Service consumption by version
• New and enhanced Business Space widgets simplify the publication and governance of your services and increase visibility.
  • SLAs by governance state
  • Endpoints by environment
  • Online and offline endpoints per environment
• The product now supports customizing of the configuration linking it to IBM Rational Asset Manager. This allows you to customize the lifecycles in either product and precisely define the linking points.
• Studio enhancements
  • Pull down updates are made in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository configuration into Studio making it simpler to do Business Space configuration.
  • Now based upon Eclipse V3.6.2.
  • Governance Policy Validator (GPV) uniqueness assertion are enhanced with new options.
• Performance improvements
  • Promotion performance are improved to make distributing information to the run-time environments faster.
  • Business space widgets make fewer calls to the backend which noticeably improves page load times, particularly over remote connections.
• REST support is now included within the Governance Enablement Profile out of the box. This allows REST services to be easily represented and managed.
• WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V8 is now based upon WebSphere Application Server V8.