On Mar 30, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Bill Barr wrote: > > There seems to be a misunderstanding by many that a Service > registry is something that a human is going to interact with directly. > > Agreed. Registries are machine-readable and repositories are human- > readable. The two need to be aggregated into a single capability. >
The one registry I know pretty well, Systinet's UDDI registry, always had a user interface -- so I don't see this as a major distinction. In my understanding, registries store references to all kinds of service artifacts and some additional metadata, while repositories store the actual artifacts themselves. Stefan -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
