One of the main goals of implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to reuse the existing applications and achieve business agility. To enable reusability and loose coupling, the developers and architects should know the taxonomies of available services within an organization before creating and architecting new applications. Lack of service visibility and traceability leads to redundant services within an organization. The ability to discover and use existing services is one of the key success criteria of implementing service-oriented architecture.
Oracle Registry organizes the existing SOA assets into taxonomy of entities and tModels to assist us in implementing the SOA governance. Ideally, any request of the resources first goes to the enterprise service bus. The enterprise service bus will do a Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) look-up (that is similar to a Domain Name Server (DNS) lookup) at the registry. The registry will provide the...