Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 5: Using WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

Overview

As the adoption of SOA in an enterprise grows, so does the complexity around managing a multitude of both new and old services in the SOA environment. Companies develop new services in house, outsource, or buy service implementation from ISVs (or partners). The number of services and the variety of service metadata, such as response time, transaction charges and other SLA information, make finding the right service for a task a difficult problem. To help with the problem, the service descriptions need to be associated with metadata that can capture arbitrary information about the services (for example, name of the department or line of business responsible for the service, version number for the service or its release date, etc.).