Architectural overview of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

IBM® WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) provides service registry and repository functions for SOA enterprise middleware and applications.

The following diagram illustrates the key components of WSRR:

WSRR architecture

Required infrastructure

WSRR is a J2EE application based on IBM WebSphere Application Server and uses a relational database as a backing store for service metadata (for example, DB2®, Oracle).

The registry and repository component provides basic service metadata storage, update and retrieval functions supporting Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, and Query capability for service metadata stored in the database according to the WSRR content model.

The following subtopics give details of some of the features shown in the architectural diagram.

Parent topic: Features
Related concepts:
Content model overview