Summary

Oracle Service Registry (OSR) is a fully V3-compliant implementation of the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) specifications. OSR stores data and metadata for all published services and is therefore a central place where service consumers can search for existing services. This search capability greatly improves service re-use across and between enterprises.

OSR can be employed with or without OER to store, classify, and manage metadata about services using taxonomies that define, among other things, security, transport, and quality of service. It also provides a virtualization layer, abstracting actual service implementation end points from the runtime container.

While OSR can be deployed and used without OER, and vice versa, the real-value proposition in terms of SOA Governance is to utilize both together. The rich functionality provided by OER can be employed to define and classify SOA Assets, manage their dependencies, and to promote them to OSR for consumption...