Preface

The Service Registry 3.1 Administration Guide describes how to configure Service Registry (“the Registry”) after installation and how to use the administration tool provided with the Registry. This book also describes other administrative tasks, such as backing up and restoring the Registry database.

Service Registry is an ebXML Registry: a federated registry and repository that manages all types of electronic content described by standard and extensible metadata. It provides federated, secure information management of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and other content and metadata. It supports the ebXML Registry 3.0 and UDDI 3.0 registry protocols.

Who Should Use This Book

The Administration Guide is intended for those who need to install, uninstall, and administer the Registry, as well as for those who want to create content for the Registry in bulk rather than use the Web Console to do so.

You should be familiar with the basics of a UNIX® command shell environment on your operating system (the Solaris^TM Operating System, Linux, or HP-UX).

Before You Read This Book

Before you read this book, you must install the Registry as described in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Installation Guide for UNIX.

Service Registry is a component of Sun Java Enterprise System (“Java ES”), a software infrastructure that supports enterprise applications distributed across a network or Internet environment. You should be familiar with the Java ES documentation at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1286.2.

Some administrative tasks require you to be familiar with the basic concepts of these specifications:

• ebXML Registry Information Model Version 3.0

• ebXML Registry Services and Protocols Version 3.0

How This Book Is Organized

The contents of this book are as follows:

Chapter 1, Configuring and Setting Up Service Registry describes how to configure Service Registry after you install it and how to perform other administrative tasks.

Chapter 2, Using the Administration Tool describes the use of the administration tool.

Service Registry Documentation Set

The Service Registry documentation set is available at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1314.2. To learn about Service Registry, refer to the books listed in the following table.

Related Books

When you install Service Registry, it is deployed to the Sun Java System Application Server. For information about administering Application Server, refer to Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Administration Guide.

The Java ES documentation set describes deployment planning and system installation. The URL for system documentation is http://docs.sun.com/coll/1286.2. For an introduction to Java ES, refer to the books in the order in which they are listed in the following table.

The URL for all documentation about Java ES and its components is http://docs.sun.com/prod/entsys.5.

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Typographic Conventions

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Shell Prompts in Command Examples

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Symbol Conventions

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