Services Registry

Use

Feature	Type of Change	Description
Services Registry	New	The Services Registry is part of the SOA landscape. It contains entries for all services and service definitions, including references to the WSDL metadata and the callable service endpoints of the service providers. The registered services are organized using classification systems to simplify the search for services in the registry. For more information, see Services Registry .
Publishing	New	Users can publish third-party services to the Services Registry. There is a function for publishing services of a software component or deployment unit update to the Services Registry. Users can publish service definitions that require user authentication (user name/password). In the publication wizard, users can add a link to documentation and classify the published service. For more information, see Publishing Service Definitions Using the Services Registry .
Service Groups	New	Users can search for Service Groups in the Services Registry. For more information, see Searching and Browsing Service Groups .
Classification Systems	New	Classifications systems delivered by SAP are available in the Services Registry after installation. Users can create and modify classification systems and values as necessary. For more information, see Predefined Classification Systems and Managing Classification Systems .
Classifying Services	New	Users can classify many service definitions at once. Users can classify service endpoints. For more information, see Classifying Service Definitions .
Searching	New	When a user regularly performs a specific search, he or she can save the search query and then just load it when you want to perform the same search again. The system stores the search queries separately for each user. Users can group by QName the result of a service definition search. For more information, see Searching and Browsing Service Definitions .
Permissions	New	Administrators can define a set of service definition details and User Management Engine roles in a usage profile. As a result of applying usage profiles, Services Registry restricts the access to a defined set of service definitions only to those users who have the corresponding role assigned to their user account. For more information, see Defining Usage Profiles .
User roles for accessing Services Registry	New	Users who need to access and modify Services Registry have certain User Management Engine roles assigned to them. For more information, see Services Registry Roles .
Deleting Entities	New	Users can delete the following entities in Services Registry's user interface: unused classification values, service definitions, service endpoints, physical systems, service groups. For more information, see Removing Services from the Services Registry .
Cleaning Invalid URLs	New	Users can clean the Services Registry from invalid URLs or URIs that cannot be reached For more information, see Cleaning the Services Registry .
SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET	New	SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET (ES Explorer) is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that helps to leverage SOA by enabling .NET developers to discover SAP enterprise services and consume them in their applications, as well as publish their own custom Web services. The documentation of ES Explorer is available in the Microsoft Visual Studio local help after installation of the add-in. For more information, see http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/dotnet.
System Management	New	Users can specify the systems on which the registered Web services reside. Users can also assign systems to existing service definition and service groups. For more information, see Managing Physical Systems .