OSR functionality

Having covered the product architecture for OSR, let us now turn our attention to the functionality provided by the tool in support of SOA Governance.

OSR fully implements the UDDI specification providing an open standards framework for exposing services and their associated metadata. OSR is used to provide an interface by which selected OER content may be accessed or published and serves as an integration point for runtime tooling such as Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, and JDeveloper. Oracle Service Bus can automatically publish and subscribe to new or modified assets.

OER and OSR are synchronized using the Oracle Registry Repository Exchange Utility.

While OSR fully implements the core UDDI V3 standard, Oracle has additionally provided key extensions to the base standard to provide support for enterprise deployments. These include:

• Advanced security that provides a mechanism for defining granular access control for registered components. Component publishers can...