14 DAY TRIAL // Seeing that the market for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) products has been growing rapidly, due to the ever increasing number of accessible web services, the demand for programs aimed at managing these services has also increased.
Taking this into consideration, Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of a Service Registry, which allows the development of a service-oriented architecture, supplying centralized access to the discovery and use of web services, as well as a secure information management system.
The main advantages of this new product are the single-registry solution, which supports both UDDI v3 and ebXML Registry 3.0 standards, as well as the service metadata repository.
"A meta-data repository is a key enabling technology for SOA," said Yefim Natis, vice president of Gartner, Inc. "It is safe to say that no long-term enterprise SOA initiative can succeed without an integrated and searchable repository/registry".
Another plus is represented by the possibility to uniquely define information structuring models, as well as the possibility of allowing the customers to manage some aspects of their web services in order to reflect their IT policy.
Sun will demonstrate the advantages of Service Registry at the JavaOne 2005 conference, and will deliver the product as part of the Sun Java Enterprise System R4, starting with the autumn of 2005, but an Early Access version will be included in the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) 1.6, announced for the end of June.