A Registry profile makes it possible to publish records and to gain access to protected records.

Instances of Providers, Services, Endpoints, Interfaces and technical descriptions of other documents must be drawn together under one account or another. A profile identifies who is responsible for the maintenance of specific registry data. Through Generic Profiles it also defines who a user relates to the registry.

A registry account is divided into two parts. One part aggregates contact and security informantion into an Account set. The second part draws together information on how a user interacts with the registry into a Profile set. With BEA AquaLogic Service Registry the user Profile includes a union of generic user types and details on how the Registry will handle user subscriptions, and notifications to recent changes in monitored records.

Registry administrators limit the number of records of a specific type that can be published under a single profile. The following limits are recommended and may apply to the registry with which you are working:

You can always browse and search the registry without logging in. When you do so you are actually using the guest user account. For security reasons, access to many records can be blocked to this account. For this and other reasons it is important to create a profile and log in to it even when you only need to browse the registry.