Governance Registry

This 3 part webinar series will take you through a detailed discussion of the WSO2 Governance Registry’s Configurable Governance Artifacts.

Enterprises look for governance solutions that can help manage their people, processes, and policies. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance brings the arsenal of tools and frameworks that help developers and administrators to more effectively and efficiently manage these aspects of the enterprise. In his WSO2Con 2011 session, Senaka discussed the key concepts of SOA governance, how to incorporate governance in the enterprise, and how the WSO2 Governance Registry can help manage application development, testing and deployment processes, as well as service lifecycles and assets. Here are highlights from his talk.

He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and also a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and committer for a number of projects at the ASF. Senaka founded WSO2 WSF/C++ during his internship at WSO2 in 2008.

Governance is part and parcel of rapidly evolving businesses. It is critical that you have the right processes and policies in place to ensure the smooth running of your business in a rapidly reshaping eco-system. Governance is not only about monitoring and managing your services once they have been developed. It is also about developing them right, and meeting stakeholder expectations.

User customization and extending functionality is a key ingredient of WSO2’s product stack. The WSO2 Governance Registry is one such product that enables users to extend existing functionality by adding custom features. In such scenarios users are provided with extending API s such as Handlers, Filters and Aspects.

Enterprise Assets are the most important components of a modern business. Modeling, managing, and monitoring your assets is key to succeeding a dynamically reshaping business landscape. The ability to keep track of your key assets and ensure that they deliver the best returns on your investment is the most fundamental capability that any governance tool must provide.

Governance has become a crucial component of most modern enterprises. Having the right tools is as important as having the right people, processes and policies. Proper Service Governance is a fundamental requirement in fighting against the uncertainty and risk set forth by the constant change and evolution of a rapidly changing business ecosystem.

Security is one of the key aspects of any software system. Authentication and Authorization are basic security requirement of any software system. In an SOA environment which most of the time is realized using web services, Username Token and HTTP basic authentication can be used to authenticate the users. Then XCMAL policy based authorization provides centralized authorization. Therefore this article describes such a SOA system written using WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), further protecting the back end services using mutual authentication.

Modern day enterprises are driven by scenarios involving interactions spanning a complex and heterogeneous set of systems. This increasing complexity coupled with the need for constant change brings uncertainty and risk.