2009-05-15 Friday - WSO2 Registry Notes

I haven't checked back on the progress of the WS02 Registry development effort for some time - so this afternoon I downloaded the latest release (2.0.1) and had it installed and running in just minutes. However, there was no joy today.

My first problem arose when I noted that the WSO2 Registry User Interface had some problems rendering the proper spacing for some columns under Internt Explorer 7.

So, I submitted a bug report for it:

CARBON-3807 Entries "Name" column does not render with appropriate spacing under IE 7

Next, I created a folder for WSDL media types - and attempted to upload a simple HelloWorld.wsdl - which resulted in an exception being thrown - and an ugly stacktrace dumping to the UI. It turns out that this bug was reported back on January 24th, 2009 - and was recently marked as resolved on May 10th, 2009:

CARBON-2891 Strack trace printed on the UI if file upload fails

So, assuming that the fix would be in the nighly builds, I downloaded the SNAPSHOT from May 14th - which appears to be currently throwing an exception during startup - that results in the navigation menu __not__ displaying any functions other than start-up and shutdown.

So, I submitted a bug report for it:

REGISTRY-544 Could not find the handler class org.wso2.carbon.registry.extensions.handlers.SynapseRepositoryHandler

2009-05-02 Saturday - SOA Governance

I spent Friday upgrading a client's evaluation of the Mule Galaxy Registry/Repository from the Community Edition to the Mule Galaxy Enterprise Edition (1.5.3) - which I installed with a MySQL backend. I'll have a lessons-learned posting in the near future - hopefully by the end of next week. A fellow on it.toolbox.com posted his view of how Mule Galaxy compares against Forrester’s report on SOA Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2008.


Erich Roch posted recently on it.toolbox.com: SOA Registry Repository Tool Integration which provides a link to the IBM DeveloperWorks article: IBM SOA Registries and Repositories Portfolio Overview

The CBDI Resource Portal has a short article on Service Asset Management


Masters Thesis: SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; THE IMPORTANCE OF SERVICE REGISTRY A CASE STUDY AT IBM
(School of Business, Economics and Law, GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY, The Department of Informatics)

Roman Stanek chief software architect and founder of the SOA registry supplier ´Sysnet` is quoted by Windely (2006) and Stanek says: “Without SOA governance, you end up in a Web services version of DLL hell. SOA governance gives consistency, predictability, and allows big applications to be built from small pieces”

Service Oriented Government: 7th SOA For E-Gov