Policy management

Policy management plays a key role in enabling policy and governance in any environment, including a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In WSRR, policies are administered using the Business Space user interface.

SOA practices help businesses identify and focus on optimizing the value of its key resources such as services, processes, and information. By adding policies to the SOA, we add points of control and agility for business and IT. This makes SOA more consumable and accelerates the usefulness and adoption of SOA solutions. Policy management is only applicable when policies are abstracted from the resources and enforcement points that they are eventually applied to. Where policies are implemented, enforced, and tightly bound to the resource itself, the agility and flexibility within SOA is limited. Any change to the tightly bound policy requires the resource to also be updated and not just the policy.

A separately authored and maintained policy has the advantage that the context to which it can be applied is not limited; for example, a transaction must complete in 2 seconds or less. The benefits are:

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