Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Lifecycle Challenges
SOA has been widely adopted by enterprises because it has been accepted as a better and faster way to build composite applications from reusable services.
However, this new approach has associated challenges and problems related to visibility and control of artifacts which, if not addressed, have the potential to minimize the productivity or benefit that is realized from SOA or could even derail projects.
Developers and users of SOA artifacts such as services, business processes and schemas are typically spread across multiple departments or teams in an enterprise. In the absence of any control, these could be scattered leading to the following challenges:
Features:
Expand SOA Deployments Effectively
Large organizations spanning multiple departments will have common services which can be reused effectively by avoiding duplication and saving valuable time in the process. SOAStore not only provides support for storing services but also for other SOA Metadata and artifacts like Process Definition (using BPEL), XML Schema, Access Control Rules and Business Policies.
Powerful Search Capabilities
Supports federated queries that enable users to discover information stored in multiple co-operating registries through a single search.
High Degree of SOA Visibility
SOAStore provides information about:
SOAStore provides functionality to:
SOA Lifecycle Management
SOAStore registry supports the entire SOA lifecycle from design, development through pilot and production, enabling better control of the SOA infrastructure. SOAStore also supports approval workflows for artifacts. There is also an Eclipse plug-in with hooks to integrate SOAStore with any Eclipse based IDE. Users can also subscribe for events on selected artifacts and receive alerts and notifications.
Federated Registries with Versioning
Multiple registries refer to each other and referencing, synchronization and interaction with other registries happens seamlessly.
Organization, Roles and Group Management
This feature allows creation of a flexible hierarchy of organizations, departments and users and associated roles and groups. All of these could be viewed and created graphically and used while defining the access control polices.
Security
Protects confidential information from unauthorized users and allows access to authorized users. Establishes fine grained access control policies using Access Control Manager and applies the policies to registry objects on a single click. Users are authenticated using username/password or LDAP.
Intuitive User Interface
SOAStore provides a graphical view of the SOA artifacts, their associations, dependencies and constraints in an editable form. The user can apply various filters to customize this view.
Business Process Level Support
Support for business processes, policies and reports that a Line of Business (LOB) user can relate to. This helps to better understand the SOA infrastructure.
Standards Compliance
SOAStore is compliant with all the major applicable standards such as JAXR, UDDI, ebXML, WS-I, XACML, BPEL 1.0, BPEL 2.0, WSDL 1.0 and WSDL 1.1.
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Graphical View of Organization:
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