[Registry-dev] Auto-creation of dependencies from ESB and WSAS configs

[Paul Fremantle]

A customer described an interesting scenario to me:

Suppose they have the WSO2ESB/Synapse mediating requests to a backend 
machine. Someone needs to take down the machine hosting the target 
endpoints, so they want to know which clients will be affected.

Of course, they could manually create associations using the new UI in 
1.1. However, it occurred to me that we can create dependencies 
automatically by parsing the proxy definitions.

In other words, we can look at the endpoint definition in the 
Synapse.xml and therefore identify that:

1) proxy service X relies on endpoint Y.
2) endpoint Y relies on host H

In addition we could probably build dependencies out of other things 
such as:
WSAS EJBs, Data Services, CORBA services
Mashups

Thoughts?

Paul

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