Chapter 7. Oracle Service Registry

This chapter will introduce the Oracle Service Registry (OSR), a fully v3-compliant implementation of the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) specifications, and a key component of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A UDDI Registry provides a standards-based directory for locating and invoking services and for managing service metadata such as security, transport, quality of service, and service endpoints.

We will discuss the purpose of the Registry and highlight the differences between OSR and the Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER). We will also discuss the product architecture and how the Registry can be employed to assist in the overall SOA Governance effort. It should be noted that it is not our intention to write a full tutorial for OSR and the reader should seek alternative sources of information for a more in-depth, step-by-step tutorial of the product.

We will also examine some of the theory that lies behind the UDDI specifications...