SERVICE LIFECYCLE GOVERNANCE WITH IBM WEBSPHERE SERVICE REGISTRY & REPOSITORY  (HARGROVE)

IBM® WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) provides service registry and repository functions for service-oriented architecture (SOA) enterprise applications. This IBM Redbooks® publication uses business scenarios to illustrate SOA governance using WSRR as the authoritative registry and repository.

We divided this book into the following parts:

•     Part one of this book introduces SOA and service governance, provides a technical overview of WSRR, and describes the WSRR governance enablement profile.
•     Part two of this book provides step-by-step guidance to building WSRR solutions. This part addresses topics such as modeling in WSRR Studio, creating a WSRR user interface, security, promotion, policies, and reports.
•     Part three describes a series of common usage scenarios and describes step-by-step how to implement them in WSRR. These scenarios describe how to govern schemas, existing services, new services, upgrades to services, and business processes.

This book is based on WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.3 and is intended for IT architects and IT specialists looking to get a better understanding of how to achieve service life cycle governance.

About the Authors
Nicole Hargrove is a Master Certified Senior IT Specialist on the East WebSphere Extended Technical team based in Raleigh, N.C. She has 14 years of experience in infrastructure and application design and deployment and has worked at IBM for 12 years. Her areas of expertise include WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, WebSphere Portal, and WebSphere Application Server, on distributed as well as mainframe platforms, and Rational Application Developer. She holds a BS with a double major in Accounting and Information Systems from Old Dominion University and an MS in Advanced Technology and eCommerce from Johns Hopkins University. She co-authored the IBM Redbooks publications regarding WebSphere Version 5 Application Development Handbook and WebSphere Portal v6 on z/OS.

Ian Heritage is the Solution Test lead for the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository development team based at the IBM Hursley Development Lab in the U.K. Prior to this position, Ian led the Level 3 service team for WSRR and the WSRR Functional Test team. Ian spent the first 5 years of his IBM career working on WebSphere Voice Response and Unified Messaging for WebSphere Voice Response. Ian has worked closely with customers to implement a WSRR solution that fits into their business processes. Ian began his career with IBM in 2000 after graduating from the University of Hertfordshire with an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Psychology. He is an ISEB Certified Test Practitioner.

Prasad Imandi is a Senior Software Engineer working in Level 2 service of IBM AIM organization in RTP, N.C. He has 14 years of experience working in multiple WebSphere products at IBM. He is currently focused on WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Business Events, and WSRR products and leads product service teams. Prasad works with customers worldwide and focuses on product integration and troubleshooting issues. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India. Prasad contributed to the IBM Redbooks publication Getting Started with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6, SG24-7212.

Martin Keen is a Consulting IT Specialist at the ITSO, Raleigh Center. He writes extensively about WebSphere products and SOA. He also teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere, SOA, and ESB. Before joining the ITSO, Martin worked in the EMEA WebSphere Lab Services team in Hursley, U.K. Martin holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Studies from Southampton Institute of Higher Education.

Wendy Neave works as an IT Architect in IBM Global Services in Australia. She has 20 years of experience in application design and development and is an IBM Certified IT Specialist. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Environmental Science) and an Associate Diploma in Computing. Over the last 9 years, Wendy has worked primarily on Web and SOA-based applications. Wendy contributed to the IBM Redbooks publications Patterns: Direct Connections for Intra- and Inter-enterprise, SG24-6933, BPEL4WS Business Processes with WebSphere Business Integration: Understanding, Modeling, Migrating, SG24-6381, and Patterns: Extended Enterprise SOA and Web Services, SG24-7135.

Laura Olson is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist. Laura specializes in SOA Governance and has developed numerous SOA solutions involving federation of registries and repositories in heterogeneous environments. She has published multiple articles about SOA on developerWorks. Laura contributed to the IBM Redbooks publication Building SOA Solutions Using the Rational SDP, SG24-7356.

Bhargav Perepa is a WebSphere IT Specialist in IBM Federal Software Group in the Washington, D.C. area, U.S. He has 15 years of experience in application and system software development at IBM. Bhargav holds a Masters degree in Computer Sciences from IIT, Chicago, and an MBA degree from the University of Texas, Texas. His areas of expertise include solution building, development, implementation, and skill transfer of WebSphere Application Server, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), SOA, Web Services, and Service Governance technologies. Prior to his current IBM role, Bhargav worked on development of C++ middleware product Component Broker (CB), Java middleware product WebSphere Application Server, Fault Tolerant CORBA (FT CORBA) Object Request Broker (ORB), and ORB interoperability efforts at IBM Austin Research Laboratory. He has worked on IBM VisualAge, ENFIN Synchronicity, Digitalk Smalltalk, and IBM VisualAge C++ efforts at IBM Chicago, previously. Bhargav is an IBM developerWorks contributing author and has written several IBM developerWorks articles in his areas of expertise.

Andrew White is a software developer in the U.K. He has 3 years of experience in middleware development at IBM. Andrew holds a degree in Computer Science from The University of Nottingham. His areas of expertise include WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, WebSphere DataPower, WebSphere Process Server, Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Service-Oriented Architecture (ITCAM4SOA), Tivoli Security Policy Manager), SOA, and Microsoft .net.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Overview

•     Chapter 1. SOA and service governance overview
•     Chapter 2. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository technical overview
•     Chapter 3. Introduction to the governance enablement profile

Part 2. Building WSRR solutions

•     Chapter 4. JKHL Enterprises case study
•     Chapter 5. Modeling in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Studio
•     Chapter 6. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Web user interface
•     Chapter 7. Security
•     Chapter 8. Promotion
•     Chapter 9. Policies
•     Chapter 10. Reports

Part 3. Scenarios

•     Chapter 11. Creating an organizational structure
•     Chapter 12. Governing a schema
•     Chapter 13. Governing a service defined in a monolithic WSDL
•     Chapter 14. Governing a service that reuses an existing service
•     Chapter 15. Governing a minor upgrade
•     Chapter 16. Governing a business process

Part 4. Appendixes

•     Appendix A. IBM governance enabling tools
•     Appendix B. Additional material