This is the first of a series of posts on which I am hoping to detail some of the most common SOA governance scenarios in the real world, their challenges and the approach we’ve taken to address them in SO-Aware. This series does not intend to be a marketing pitch about SO-Aware. Instead, I would like to use this to foment an honest dialog between SOA governance technologists.

For the starting post I decided to focus on the aspect that was once considered the keystone of SOA governance: service discovery

Scenario

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Introduction

Web services have been around for over 10 years now in some form or fashion. What this means is that there are millions of services in existence, on the public internet as well as your private network, and they mostly all lack at least one thing in common, discovery. Discovery is the mechanism by which web services and clients can be made aware of other web services and clients on a network. Discovery comes in two basic designs.

• Dwight Goins's blog
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