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Explore the Role of Service Repositories and Registries in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Understanding the Definition of Each and When to Use Them

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Overview Many recent publications [Longworth, Clement, Seeley] define registry/repository functionality as a lynchpin of any Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. The enterprise-wide nature of SOA [Lublinsky] requires a significant amount of collaboration between design and implementation teams. Analysts designing business processes need to find services providing functionality required by these processes. Finding a service best suited for solving a particular business problem is critical for successful process implementation. However, functionality alone doesn't guarantee service applicability. Questions about nonfunctional requirements, for example, Service-Level Agreements (SLA) or security requirements, help potential service users assess whether a set of services picked for a given solution will work together. Finally, services dependencies have to be addressed.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2007	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture

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SOA is a goer, say Indian tech chiefs

And many companies believe the key to this has something to do with the IT industry's latest hot concepts, service-oriented architecture (SOA). For more on service-oriented architecture see our SOA Cheat Sheet.

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Inside India
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india,
soa

Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?

Vendors who are involved in SOA success stories need to bring these case scenarios to their customer and prospective customer bases, not as deep tomes of technical details but as examples of how organisations addressed a specific business need.

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SOA/Web Services
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soa

Link up all parts of your business

Essentially this is adding service-oriented architecture (SOA) functionality to your existing applications. SOA In a nutshell, SOA enables applications to create services that can be called by other applications.

SOA adoption eats up 40 per cent of IT resources

SOA 'light': This approach is based on open source programs and industry standards and is best suited to small companies, lightweight integration and simple web services such as employee self-service.

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