Designer 10.7 | Centrasite Eclipse UI Help | Concepts | Assets and Registry Objects | Assets
 
Assets
An asset is a registry object that represents an artifact in your SOA environment, for example, a Web service, an XML schema or a BPEL process. The Asset Types view of the CentraSite Eclipse GUI enables you to access the assets defined for the organization to which you are assigned as a CentraSite user.
An asset is described by:
* Properties of Registry Objects, Classifications of Registry Objects, Associations Between Registry Objects and External Links. These details of an asset can be displayed in the Details Editor.
*Asset files. An asset file is a file or a file-like resource that represents or contains the asset itself. For example, a Web service asset relates to a copy of the WSDL document that describes the service; an XML schema asset relates to a copy of the actual XML schema document. Asset files are stored in the CentraSite repository.
The assets in the registry reference the files in the repository. Each asset can be described by one or more asset files. Whether and how many asset files are available, depends on the type of asset.
*Supporting documents. A supporting document is a file that contains useful information about an asset, for example, a technical specification, sample code or a programming guide. Like asset files, supporting documents are stored in the CentraSite repository. They are located in your organization's Supporting Documents Library, which is part of the CentraSite repository.
The assets in the registry reference the documents in the Supporting Documents Library. Each asset can be described by one or more supporting documents.
The following asset types are predefined when CentraSite is installed:
*Application
*Application server
*BPEL process
*Service
*WS policy
*XML schema
*Virtual Service
*Virtual XML Service
*Virtual REST Service
A list of all asset types can be found in the Asset Types View. You can add your own types, and also modify and delete existing types. Assets of different types are identified by different icons in the CentraSite Eclipse GUI. You can specify the icon to be used when creating or modifying an asset type.