More uses WSO2 Registry

I discussed about main methods of using the WSO2 Registry here. We can combine those methods of individual usages to achieve more interesting deployments of the Registry.

Let's consider the combination of Registry server deployment and the remote Registry deployments. In this scenario, you can start with deploying the Registry war file in an application server. To start with, create the initial users and roles to whom you are expecting to give some level of administrative privileges. Then you can define the initial categorizations of the Registry by creating the top level collection structure. These collections may include sub-collections for each of your departments, partners, suppliers, clients, etc. Then you can give the desired permission levels for the users who are supposed to manage each of those sub-collections. Once this is done, managers/heads of each sub-collection can use the Registry to store all the resources needed for their sections. These include the employee records (word documents), accounts (excel sheets), business plans (presentations), product details (pdf files), etc.

But that's not all. All the SOA related resources for each department can also be stored in the sub-collection tree of corresponding department. IT managers can store WSDLs for their services, jars/aars for pluggable components or services, configuration files used by department's servers, etc in the sub-collection tree of their department. Once you setup the resources for your SOA deployments in the Registry, you can point your web services servers, ESBs, application servers, etc to the Registry. Any server, that is completely unaware about the Registry or its APP based protocol can use it to fetch resource. Because simple HTTP GET requests are all you need to fetch resources from the WSO2 Registry. But if you want to access all the features provided by the Registry, you can embed the Registry APP client to your Java servers and call the Registry API though it. In this way, you can manage your organization's general resources as well as resources for driving the SOA deployments of your organization around the WSO2 Registry.