Howto register REST or other types of services?

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Submitted by sejensen on October 23, 2008 - 06:00
Hi We are looking at the wso2 registry to use in our preferred SOA platform. But we cannot currently find out how to register services that are not based on SOAP and therefore not descriped by WSDL files. We would like to be able to lookup the endpoint for various rest services just like the api for this registry. Is this possible and how to do it? Kind regards Steffen
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Hi Steffen, There are many

Submitted by chathura c. eka... on October 23, 2008 - 20:24.
Hi Steffen, There are many approaches you can follow to support your scenario. A simplest method would be to add endpoints as a normal text resource (artifact) and tag them appropriately. Then you can lookup the endpoints by tags. I think the best approach would be to define a custom media type for rest services. Then you can enforce custom processing for rest services to validate endpoints, extract endpoint properties, automatically tag, etc. This allows you to look up services by their endpoint properties, tags, etc. This procedure requires you to write a plugin for registry called handler. More information about handlers with an example can be found in http://wso2.org/library/articles/extending-wso2-registry-handlers. Thanks, Chathura
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Hi Chathura, Do we still need

Submitted by pmhiten.gmail.com on April 8, 2010 - 14:46.
Hi Chathura, Do we still need to handle registering the REST services through custom media and custom handlers with "WSO2 3.0.3" version? From what I have read in the docs and observed in the 3.03 Management Console, is that it supports variety of message formats (XML, HTTP-REST, JSON in addition to SOAP). Is this just to document the meta-data for the service or it does support registering and managing the REST services ? Would highly appreciate any response on this. We are in middle of evaluating the multiple repository and registry solutions and the REST services support is becoming the decisive factor in our evaluation process. Thanks.
dimuthuc's picture

The fields in the services UI

Submitted by dimuthuc on April 10, 2010 - 17:32.
The fields in the services UI helps you to catagorize services, from GReg 3.5 this will help you easy discover your services as well. As Chathura told you can define custom behaviours for services by writing handlers to your service media type. You can find samples for handles aspects cutomUIs which can be used to extend registry in the binray package. Thanks Dimuthu
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Thanks much. So, with the

Submitted by pmhiten.gmail.com on April 11, 2010 - 11:07.
Thanks much. So, with the current release (v 3.03), we can categorize the different REST services in the repository - however will not able to discover the REST services at runtime. Is this understanding correct ? Thanks again.
dimuthuc's picture

Yes. The coming release you

Submitted by dimuthuc on April 11, 2010 - 21:45.
Yes. The coming release you can discover services manually or programmatically using the governance API. Thanks, Dimuthu
pmhiten.gmail.com's picture

Thanks

Submitted by pmhiten.gmail.com on April 14, 2010 - 14:28.
Thanks Dimuthuc !!
krishantha's picture

Guide to use discovery

Submitted by krishantha on May 6, 2010 - 22:53.
Guide to use discovery feature is available at http://charithaka.blogspot.com/2010/04/ws-discovery-with-wso2-carbon.html Thanks Krishantha
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This part I understand it,

Submitted by maria.cristinaa... on July 27, 2010 - 02:22.
This part I understand it, but anybody knows how rest services technology became a part of the Java EE 6 platform? Thanks in advance, Ioana Bucuresti
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