eWeek: IBM announces an interoperable Web services registry and repository

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945820,00.asp

 

Hard to know from the sales hype here - but this sounds like warmed over UDDI

with a sprinkling of partner agreement stuff creeping in.  Not sure what standards

they are using for this - no mention anywhere in the sales puff.

 

I'm almost 99% certain they are not using ebXML Registry for this - despite their

research work in Isreal on same and their commitment to IHE/XDS for healthcare.

 

It would have been nice if Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with IT research firm ZapThink,

had been doing a little less marketing Zap'ing and a little more technical Think'ing -

and asked a few relevant and obvious questions.  But then again - it's from Big-Blue

dude - so its gotta be good for you...

 

Anyone have any real information here to share - aside from sales-froth?

 

Assuming of course that your webservices registry is semantically aligned with mine

and can actually exchange that information in a format it can be ingested in

response to the asynchronous query...

 

DW

 

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<snip>Probably the most significant product announcement, however, is IBM's new WebSphere Services Registry and Repository, a system that not only manages the meta data and information around the services that a company builds and deploys—including service end points, service-level quality, and service-level agreements—but it also enables interoperability across multiple registries and repositories.

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The key piece of information with IBM's Web services registry and repository is that it will be interoperable with other registries (as they become available). Both SAP and Oracle, the world's largest and second-largest business applications developers respectively, are in development with their own Web services repositories. Given that the key to Web services is to have other Web services to integrate with, the interoperability among registries—SAP will register its services; Oracle will register its services, and so on throughout the software industry—is critical.

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