Asset Management and Governance

Managing the content of the registry is critical to the success of an SOA environment. To support this effort, CentraSite provides governance capabilities and tools that enable administrators and architects to:

Model the specific entities that make up an organization’s SOA environment as well as the dependencies and interrelationships of those entities.

Enable reuse of computing assets by providing easy access to in-depth information about an artifact’s technical properties, semantics and relationships to other artifacts in the SOA.

Define classification systems (taxonomies) that enable Web services and other assets to be easily discovered and managed.

Impose mandatory testing, approval processes and/or quality checks to ensure that assets accepted into the SOA adhere to organizational standards and policies.

Model the lifecycle process associated with each asset type and specify the events that are to be triggered when an asset transitions from one lifecycle state to another.

The CentraSite plug-in for Eclipse, provided with CentraSite enables developers, architects and business analysts to discover, publish and re-use SOA assets in the registry and repository. It can be used with Software AG Designer (which is an Eclipse-based development tool) or with any Eclipse installation that is running at the same version as the version of Eclipse that Software AG Designer is using.

The CentraSite Eclipse-based graphical user interface (GUI) follows the paradigms of the Eclipse Workbench: Views, Editors and Perspectives are provided for working with the CentraSite registry and repository. Actions can be carried out from context menus and toolbars. You can customize the working environment using standard Eclipse Workbench functions. For detailed information on the Eclipse Workbench, refer to the Workbench User Guide which comes with Eclipse. General information on Eclipse is available at www.eclipse.org.