Design-Time Features and Benefits
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 other reusable assets and use them to assemble new 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 environment 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 reuse SOA assets.
Managing the content of the registry is critical to the success of an SOA environment. To support this effort, CentraSite's governance capabilities and tools enable administrators and architects to:
Control access to
CentraSite and to individual assets listed in the registry.
Model the specific entities and artifacts that make up an organization's SOA environment.
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) to ensure that Web services and other assets can be easily discovered and managed.
Impose mandatory testing, approval processes and/or quality checks on assets to ensure that they adhere to organizational standards and policies.
Model the development lifecycle for a type of asset and specify policies that are to be triggered when an asset transitions from one lifecycle state to another.
