Using OSR with OER

Without doubt, OER is Oracle's flagship product for design-time Governance, providing rich management features for controlling SOA Assets and their dependencies as well as support for approval and publishing of Assets.

OSR compliments OER by also providing support for runtime governance, but the observant reader may well have noticed a number of overlaps between the two products in the design-time Governance space. For example, both OER and OSR support Asset approvals, service lifecycle via promotions between environments, and the categorization of Assets using taxonomies.

While this chapter has focused on the rich functionality provided by OSR, the reader may be keen to understand how Oracle envisages the two products working hand-in-hand. The following section sets out to answer some of those questions.

Topology options

As explained earlier in this chapter, OSR can be installed in standalone or multi-registry mode. In organizations where OSR and OER co-exist, the recommended...