Working with a Services Registry

Context

The Services Registry is a directory to which all Web services provided in a landscape can be published. It contains the Web services with references to their relevant WSDL metadata and to the locations of the callable service endpoints. The registered Web services are classified using a semantic classification system to enable browsing of services by classification. The Services Registry is a central place for developers to find services they can reuse. Administrators can find service endpoints and manage connections within a landscape.

You can either use a Java-based Services Registry or configure one of your ABAP systems as a Services Registry. The Java Services registry is UDDI compliant. If you do not need to use standard UDDI APIs, you can set up an ABAP system as a Services Registry.

Procedure

  1. Set up a Java-based or ABAP-based Services Registry:
  2. Set up a connection to a Services Registry.

    For more information, see Setting Up the Connection to a Services Registry.

  3. Create publication rules and assign them to a Services Registry, to publish Web services to the Services Registry.

    For more information, see Publishing Web Services to the Services Registry.

  4. Classify and search for Web services in the Services Registry.

    For more information, see Finding Information in the Services Registry and Creating New Classifications in the Services Registry.