Designer 10.5 | Centrasite Eclipse UI Help | Getting Started | Introduction to CentraSite and its Eclipse GUI | Support for the SOA Design-Time Environment
 
Support for the SOA Design-Time Environment
CentraSite supports the development of SOA-based applications by enabling developers, architects and business analysts to:
*Publish Web services and other reusable assets into their organization’s central registry.
*Discover Web services and use them to assemble consumer applications.
*Obtain detailed information about a Web service, including the list of its consumers, its technical support contacts, its disposition in the development lifecycle, usage tips and performance data.
*Examine the relationships that a Web service has with other artifacts in the SOA in order to understand how a change to that service will impact the service’s sub-components and dependents.
CentraSite supports an array of design-time tools that enable developers, architects and business analysts to discover, publish and re-use SOA assets. These tools include:
* CentraSite Control, a browser-based user interface provided with CentraSite.
*The CentraSite plug-in for Eclipse, also provided with CentraSite.
*UDDI V3.0-compatible registry browsers and IDEs.
*Third-party design-time tools available from members of the CentraSite Community. The CentraSite Community is a group of independent software vendors and system integrators who develop products that integrate with CentraSite.