OSR overview

The OSR provides a standards-based mechanism to classify, catalog, and manage services, so that they can be discovered and consumed by other applications, and is a key component of an SOA. The registry stores details of each service including metadata such as security, transport protocols, and quality of service:

OSR is fully compliant with the UDDI v3 specification that describes details for the implementation of a service registry and associated programmatic interfaces. UDDI supports the description and discovery of:

• Businesses, organizations, and other Service Providers

• The services they publish

• The technical interfaces that may be used to access and manage these services.

OSR promotes service re-use by allowing consumers to easily locate published services using categorization rules (taxonomies) that are either industry-standard or specific to an individual organization. The registry provides information on security and transport protocols supported by a given service and the...