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CentraSite is available in the following editions. The edition that is enabled on your machine depends on the type of license that you have acquired from Software AG.
CentraSite Community Edition (CE)
The Community Edition is a free-of-charge version of CentraSite that
is available for download from
http://www.centrasite.com/,
http://www.centrasite.org/. This edition
provides basic registry functionality and supports the installed set of asset
types. The Community Edition enables organizations to explore CentraSite's
basic capabilities before advancing to the ActiveSOA edition.
CentraSite ActiveSOA
CentraSite ActiveSOA is a licensed version of CentraSite that has
all of the features of the Community Edition plus a powerful set of SOA
governance features. CentraSite ActiveSOA enables organizations to enforce
standard processes and conventions through the application of policies. It
includes lifecycle-management, which enables users to define lifecycle models
and manage the state of an asset using the CentraSite Control user interface.
It also supports the deployment of policies and virtual services on policy
enforcement points in the run-time environment.
The following table describes the features that are available in each CentraSite edition.
| Feature | CE | ActiveSOA | |
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| Registry |
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| Repository |
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| Catalog Features |
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| - Browse Assets |
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| - Publish Assets |
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| - Keyword Search |
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| - Advanced Search |
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| - Version Asset |
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| - Impact Analysis |
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| Supporting Document Library |
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| My Favorites |
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| Notifications |
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| Design/Change-Time Policies |
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| Approvals |
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| Interoperability with Policy Enforcement Points |
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| Run-Time Policies |
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| Virtual Services |
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| Web Service Quality-of-Service Monitoring |
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| Lifecycle Management |
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| Federation |
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| Logging |
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| Organization Management |
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| User, Groups, Roles Management |
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| Taxonomy Management (Custom Taxonomies) |
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| Asset Type Management (Custom Asset Types) |
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| Reporting |
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| Eclipse-based GUI |
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| Browser-based GUI (CentraSite Control) |
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| XQuery and JAXR-based APIs |
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| UDDI API |
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