Overview

This section gives an overview of the IBM® WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). It describes the business goals that WSRR sets out to solve and the way in which WSRR can be integrated into the service-oriented architectures being adopted by many organizations.

Service-oriented architectures
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) offer the promise of business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. These goals are realized by separating service descriptions from their implementations, and using this descriptive metadata throughout the service lifecycle.
Overview of the WSRR role in SOA
The WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) is the master metadata repository for service descriptions.
Business goals for WSRR
Industries are moving to service-oriented architectures (SOA) to give them increased business agility. Central to this move is the need for a service registry to help manage and govern the services and their business processes.
WSRR and the SOA service lifecycle
IBM's service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a way of designing and running the software portion of an information technology infrastructure so that it supports the various individual and interrelated functions that are needed to operate a particular enterprise.
WSRR and SOA Governance
WSRR plays a key role in the end-to-end governance underpinnings of the SOA lifecycle.
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