But I will share with you some basic thoughts:
Governance refers to the processes that an enterprise puts in place to ensure that things are done right, where "right" means in accordance with best practices, architectural principles, government regulations, laws, and other determining factors. SOA governance refers to the processes used to govern adoption and implementation of SOA.
SOA governance involves three steps:
- Define SOA policies
- Deploy an SOA infrastructure that supports adoption of these policies
- Institute a set of formal processes and procedures that verify compliance with these policies
SOA policies relate to issues such as:
- · Design principles
- · Preferred design patterns
- · Application-factoring rules
- · Naming conventions
- · Metadata requirements
- · Documentation
- · Preferred products
- · Product selection guidelines
- · Preferred domain standards
- · Preferred industry standards
- · Methods for dealing with regulatory requirements
- · Methods for assessing security risks
- Methods for implementing security based on risk factor
- · Methods for ensuring reliability and transaction integrity·
- Service testing
- New service deployment and staging
- · Service registration
- · Service classification
- · Service provisioning
- · Service configuration
- · Service monitoring
- ·
Client provisioning
- · Service modification
- · Service versioning
- · Impact analysis
- · Service level objectives (SLO)
- · Service level agreement (SLA) compliance tracking
- · Error tracking and resolution
Products that help with SOA governance include registries, repositories, software asset management systems, workflow, testing tools, web services management.
No one vendor covers the full SOA governance lifecycle.
Leading players in the SOA governance software market include:
- Systinet and WebLayers, who provide policy management systems (repository-based system for managing the lifecycle of codified policies) as well as policy compliance testing tools and integrated workflow for managing approval processes. Mindreef also does some compliance testing, but at a much smaller scope.
- Systinet, Infravio, Flashline, and LogicLibrary, who provide registries, repositories, and/or software asset management systems, which are extremely useful for managing SOA assets and which can be used as a gatekeeper for institution of governance approval processes at various points in the service lifecycle (dev, testing, staging, provisioning, revisions)
- AmberPoint, Actional, Layer 7, and Reactivity, who provide
support for governance at the service provisioning and runtime stages.
On 11/19/05, Gautham Kasinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steve,
Thanks for the brief explanation. I am reading the workshop materials
from W3C on the topic, following your advice.
Thanks again.
Cheers
Gautham Kasinath
--- In [email protected], Steve
Ross-Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Gautham,
>
> Normally the term governance as applied to SOA is based on the notion
> of static governance.
> This is the sort of thing that WS-Policy (which is not a standard) is
> all about. A recent workshop
> run by W3C looked at wider notions of governance including the more
> interesting form which is
> dynamic governance.
>
> It probably makes sense to take a peek at the W3C workshop papers to
> get a better understanding
> of what governance is all about.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve T
>
> W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services
> http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ws-cc-program.html#papers
>
>
>
> On 19 Nov 2005, at 00:33, Gautham Kasinath wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > What exactly is SOA governance? Is it goverining an SOA framework,
> > like in monitoring request-response, SLA etc?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Gautham Kasinath
> >
> > --- In [email protected], John Crupi
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> > > Would you like to start with the use-cases/scenarios first to
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> > > narrow the problem?
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> > > On Nov 18, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Tilak Mitra wrote:
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> > > > I am looking for some real world implementation of SOA
> > > > Governance, starting right from a project inception
> > > > i.e. Strategy and Visioning , through Design,
> > > > Implementation and right through operational and
> > > > runtime.
> > > > Any white paper / research work or material in any
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