Hey, remember registries in the WS-* stack? Sure, it was that part that stores all those services, lets you look them up, and acts a a general clearing house for all that yummy WS-* enabled XML-goop. Centralizing that sort of thing gives you the nifty effect of having more governance and control over versions of those services.<\/p>\n
Well, in the neck of the woods I hang out in, people are not too chummy with WS-* stuff. Indeed, folks like the simpler things: just throw some XML over HTTP, or if you’re feeling all uppity use APP.<\/p>\n
Recently, of interest, are two new attempts at the old registry problem, with attention paid to the simple is beautiful approach while casting a sighing glance to standards and the larger SOA world.<\/p>\n
You might call them human-friendly rather than machine friendly registries: Mule’s Galaxy<\/a> and WSO2’s Registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n To my mind, both come from the ESB-driven camp of SOA. This camp cares about the low-level idea of using an ESB as a messaging bus for the SOA. The WS-* standards used don’t matter so much as the bus, which is the core technology in this SOA camp. Compare to the WS-* standards being king in the more “traditional” SOA understanding.<\/p>\n As such, these two registries focus on things like APP, REST, and – golly! – even tagging. Their focus is on, sure, making it easy for code to access and use the registry, but the more important aspect is to pull in humans<\/i> to sort through and use the registries.<\/p>\n We’ll see how it goes this time: “registry” doesn’t usually get people all hot and bothered, but maybe tagging and “social networking” services will.<\/p>\n Disclaimer:<\/b> MuleSource and WSO2 are clients.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technorati Tags: mulesource<\/a>, soa<\/a>, ws-*<\/a>, wso2<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People is nuts for cracking the Registry Nut…again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-tools","category-enterprise-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}