Overview of Lifecycle Management
Lifecycle management is of importance to every enterprise that wants to implement a process-driven SOA with emphasis on adaptability, service reuse and improvement. The lifecycle management (LCM) system for CentraSite helps to:
Assess change impact and manageability across all service consumers;
Ensure service quality through an integrated lifecycle approval process;
Enable a single viewpoint for service stages and their artifacts.
Typically, assets such as web services pass through different states (designing, implementation, testing) before they can be used in a production environment. As the number of objects in a registry grows, it is necessary to introduce stages (Development, Test, Production) to provide adequate operational environments for all parties involved in the lifecycle. Furthermore, an organization may want to add conditions and rules for passing an object through the lifecycle. Therefore the registry should allow administrators to define roles and permissions and connect these to lifecycle steps.
