A helpful look at the importance and role of a SOA Repository. Includes examples and excellent diagrams. From the Resource, "Repository - The basic SOA Repository contains information that is referenced (usually via a URL) from the SOA Registry. Based on common registry capabilities these documents are: WSDL files, Policy files, and any other documentation generated during the software development lifecycle. The SOA Repository can also contain artifacts generated at run time such as logged messages, archived performance data, and archived health data."
"...as companies begin to move from a pilot stage of SOA into real implementations across many different business units, the registry and repository become important factors in both scalability and control of the environment."
Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, and Marcia Kaufman
