Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Technical Overview

Service Registry 3.1

Sun Java System Service Registry (Service Registry) is a repository that serves as both a web services (UDDI) registry and an enterprise business XML (ebXML) registry for supporting web service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. The UDDI registry is used to register and discover web services, and the ebXML registry is used to store and manage the information artifacts needed to support business process integration. These artifacts include metadata such as XML schema, business process rules, web service access controls, version controls, classifications schemes, and so forth.

Service Registry includes the following subcomponents: