Publishing and locating live services is the heart of what the Registry is all about. However a registry needs to do more than direct users to services and endpoints. A registry also needs to guarantee that the services published within are actual, are stable, conform to certain minimum standards, and are trackable in terms of their evolution through releases and lifecycles.
While Web services Interoperability and Reliability specifications have been worked out by the industry in recent years, establishing and implementing policies for certifying such service aspects is left to the Registry administrator.
Services in the Business Service Console are a mapping of the UDDI businessService type. Both of these are ultimately mappings of a WSDL document. However a Service in the Business Service Console is designed to be both less and more. It is less in that, in the BSC, Service record publishing and Service record retrieval and display is restricted to only the most essential data fields. It is more in that additional information about states and aspects of the Service can be added to the record to aid Architects, Administrators, Managers and Developers in deciding which service is most suitable and dependable for their needs.
The Details tab of the Service Details control displays high level information such as: the Provider who manages a given service, a description, and search Keywords associated with the record.
The Classifications tab lets you view taxonomic classifications associated with this service.
The right Technical Info tab leads to a list of information such as namespaces used by the service, publication status and live endpoints that implement this service.
References to this service can be found in the References tab.
The System Info tab shows unique identifier keys and changes made to the record.
At anytime you can use the action drop down list box to edit, delete, create a Reference to, or toggle Notification of changes to the record you are viewing. Given the proper account type and permissions, clicking the Go button will launch one of these processes.