Sun Microsystems is offering a service registry to help clients pinpoint and manage Web services, a boon for corporations that have such services scattered far and wide across their networks.
Registries are important tools for Web services users. Without such repositories, users find it nearly impossible to find the right services when they need them, because application-based services are typically spread across remote computers.
The Sun Service Registry software offers a central repository to help users discover, use and, if necessary, reuse Web services. The utility manages services across systems that employ various vendor software pieces, supporting both UDDI version 3 and ebXML Registry 3.0 standards.
The registry allows users to manage Web services, based on pre-set policies, from the time they are created until users are ready to be dispose of them. The software also includes a compartment to store metadata about the services. This helps specific transactions be easily found.
