Registries such as the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository contain artifacts such as interfaces, business objects and XML structures that can be shared across an enterprise. The enterprise service discovery wizard lets you examine the artifacts at the registry and retrieve the applicable artifacts for your service oriented architecture applications.
The WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is a service metadata repository. With respect to WebSphere Integration Developer, service metadata is used during the model and assembly stages of the service oriented architecture life cycle. Service metadata is used to locate services to reuse and assess the impact of changes to service configurations. The services found in the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository cover a broad spectrum of artifacts. These artifacts include WSDL interfaces with or without bindings, business objects, and other XML structures used across an enterprise.
The WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is a central point for finding and managing service metadata acquired from a variety of sources. Service metadata from around an enterprise is brought together to provide a single description of a service. Services can then be controlled, versioned, proposed changes analyzed and usage monitored.
Introducing IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides more information on this registry.
In this section, you are shown how to set up your preferences to connect to a specific registry and then how to use the enterprise service discovery wizard to discover and import artifacts from the registry.