SOA registry competition

Deepal Jayasinghe has written this blog entry about Open source competition - Mule Galaxy vs WSO2 Registry. He has published an article of comparing Glaxy vs WSO2 Registry. It is worth to read his article before you starting with any open source SOA registry.

Open Source registry for SOA governance.

WSO2 has announced their latest release of WSO2 Registry 1.1. Comparing to registry 1.0 release, the new release has lots of new features and performance improvements. So it has more enhanced support for SOA governance.

New features:

• Performance improvements
• Change from auto-versioning collections to explicit checkpointing
• Lifecycle/Aspect support
• Much improved WSDL handling, validation, and WS-I validation
• Support for transaction handling
• Generic typed associations
• API improvements, including streamlined Filter/Handler plugins
  

WSO2 registry comes with a web based user interface, which is really user friendly and easy to use by technical or non technical people. The UI is based on web 2.0 look and feel. Newly implemented pagination support is cool feature which serve the users more faster. WSO2 ESB and WSO2 Mashup Server have embedded WSO2 Registry, so the registry is already used in production environments.