Managing Web Services: The Actional Approach

Managing Web services requires a feedback loop between services and policies.

Key Web Services Lifecycle Management Concerns

Following are key SOA lifecycle questions with which IT must concern itself:

• What is the governance around service construction at design time?
• How do we seamlessly move services through the deployment process?
• How do we synchronize the registry, real-time information, design and architectural information?
• How can we make sure that teams which haven't worked together have a way to share information?
• How to ensure that IT has a comprehensive lifecycle approach to governance?
• How to ensure that problems aren't discovered in production -- thus risking compliance violations?

Managing the Web Services Registry

We start with the registry, and locate the services which are in the design phase. And then use the registry to answer essential questions like:

• Who's designing the service?
• For which department(s)?
• What is the purpose of the service?
• How and where is the service being published?
• Are all the necessary requirements checked off?
• Who owns the authorization processes?
• Is the service authorized for publication?
• What policy enforcement processes are implemented on the services network?

Enforcing Use of the Registry During the Web Services Lifecycle

Another question is: how can IT enforce the use of the registry -- enforce the submission of information into the registry? How does IT enforce it in design time, during the publishing process, and in the production environment itself? This is why the feedback loop is a formal part of the process: so IT can continually get better -- narrowing or removing these gaps over time.

For More Information

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