IBM® WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) provides service registry and repository functions for service-oriented architecture (SOA) enterprise applications. This IBM Redbooks® publication uses business scenarios to illustrate SOA governance using WSRR as the authoritative registry and repository.

We divided this book into the following parts:

-- Part one of this book introduces SOA and service governance, provides a technical overview of WSRR, and describes the WSRR governance enablement profile.

-- Part two of this book provides step-by-step guidance to building WSRR solutions. This part addresses topics such as modeling in WSRR Studio, creating a WSRR user interface, security, promotion, policies, and reports.

-- Part three describes a series of common usage scenarios and describes step-by-step how to implement them in WSRR. These scenarios describe how to govern schemas, existing services, new services, upgrades to services, and business processes.

This book is based on WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.3 and is intended for IT architects and IT specialists looking to get a better understanding of how to achieve service life cycle governance.

Related publications:

• IBM Redbooks publication: Service Lifecycle Governance with IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition

• IBM Redpaper: Integrating WebSphere Service Registry and Repository with WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB

• IBM Redpaper: Integrating WebSphere Service Registry and Repository with WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker

• IBM Redpaper: Integrating WebSphere Service Registry and Repository with WebSphere DataPower

• IBM Redpaper: Integrating WebSphere Service Registry and Repository with Tivoli Security Policy Manager

Part 1. Overview

Chapter 1. SOA and service governance overview

Chapter 2. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository technical overview

Chapter 3. Introduction to the governance enablement profile

Part 2. Building WSRR solutions

Chapter 4. JKHL Enterprises case study

Chapter 5. Modeling in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio

Chapter 6. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Web user interface

Chapter 7. Security

Chapter 8. Promotion

Chapter 9. Policies

Chapter 10. Reports

Part 3. Scenarios

Chapter 11. Creating an organizational structure

Chapter 12. Governing a schema

Chapter 13. Governing a service defined in a monolithic WSDL

Chapter 14. Governing a service that reuses an existing service

Chapter 15. Governing a minor upgrade

Chapter 16. Governing a business process

Part 4. Appendixes

Appendix A. IBM governance enabling tools

Appendix B. Additional material