The implementation experience of an advanced service repository for supporting service-oriented architecture

To be effective, the systematic reuse in software development process must be supported by an artifact database. Although many organizations do not have such database, generally the Service Repository is the catalog responsible for leveraging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) reuse within the development lifecycle. This paper presents a SOA implementation experience, emphasizing the contributions of developing Service Repository extensions. The adoption of SOA occurred along with a new ERP deployment. One of the main goals was to enable the reuse of standard processes and services within a better integration between ERP system and legacy systems. The repository received additional capabilities to maximize searches and usability; to support configuration and release management; and also address performance issues within cache manageability. The benefits of this work are presented, as well as the results of the current situation in the organization considering SOA repository usage and the empirical evidence collected.