Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Start SOA governance with WSO2 governance Registry

WSO2 has recently announced their new release of WSO2 Governance Registry which is based on WSO2 Carbon framework 3.0.0.

It was packed with some exciting and very useful new features. The product can be used not only to govern you SOA metadata, but also as a registry-repository for your organization. Most interestingly the product is open source and available freely under Apache license. First version (0.1) of the product was released in December, 2007. Thus, the product has been matured over two years and good enough to cater your SOA governance requirement easily.

List of new features of the release as follows.

New Features
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* Gadgets for impact analysis on services and registry resources
* WSDL custom view
* Dynamic Handler configuration
* Handler simulator
* Tree-based Resource view
* API to govern SOA artifacts
* Complete Web Services API for Registry
* Improved options for Service discovery
* WS-Discovery support
* Scripting support for lifecycle management
* Improved P2 based provisioning and feature management support
* Support for adding remote mounts
* Platform, and Group/Cluster based deployment model
* Support for multiple server instances
* E-mail verification for subscriptions
* Support for deleting tags and comments
* Support for PostgreSQL DBMS
* Paged activity and resource search
* Hierarchical permission model with granular and extensible permissions
* Ability to upload metadata (in addition to importing)
* Governance Archive for uploading WSDLs and Schemas with imports
* Ability to update resource content by uploading
* Rich text editor for editing text resources
* XML editor for editing handler, lifecycle and service UI configurations

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