The roles of OSR and OER
As discussed earlier in this book, OER is a fundamental component for effective design-time Governance (refer to Chapter 3, Introduction to Oracle Enterprise Repository). OER delivers critical information about current service capabilities to architects, SOA designers, and developers at design time, empowering them to make informed decisions for service re-use. All Design Time components and metadata are stored in OER.
OER provides a flexible meta-model for cataloging all assets within the SOA ecosystem and their dependencies and relationships to other artifacts. It is primarily used during the plan, design, and build phase of the lifecycle as a single source of truth for service and composite application development.
The OSR, on the other hand, acts as a reference point for services that have been deployed into the runtime environment. It is primarily used by components of the SOA infrastructure for programmatic, dynamic discovery and binding. OSR typically contains...
