Oracle Service Registry

Oracle Service Registry (OSR) is a fully V3-compliant implementation of UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration), and one of the key components of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. It allows us to publish and discover services and service providers, and manage metadata about services (security, transport, or quality service) using taxonomies. Therefore, it plays an important role when trying to improve visibility and promote service reuse. It is also important in the scope of SOA governance.

A service registry is very important for various reasons. It provides a central place where all service definitions are stored. This becomes important when the number of services (including BPEL processes) grows. It helps to maintain an overview of services. A service registry also provides a central place where developers can search for existing services. This improves service reuse, which is one of the most important aspects of SOA. Of course, a service registry also provides...