The following governance concepts are described below.
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WSO2 Governance Registry stores governance metadata and information on governance related entities. Registry resources storing this information and/or metadata are known as assets. Asset is a representation of any physical or digital entity that belong to an organization, which needs to be governed. In WSO2 Governance Registry, a set of predefined attributes compose an asset.
WSO2 Governance Registry provides an XML-based semantic structure called RXT (Registry Extension Types), to define the structure of a given asset type. There are two RXT categories as follows:
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WSO2 Governance Registry provides out of the box access to WSDL, WADL, Swagger, WS-Policy and XSD Schema Content RXTs, and SOAP service, REST service Generic RXTs, via WOS2 G-Reg Publisher. Also, you can define your own RXTs as required, and make them available for operations facilitated by the WSO2 G-Reg Publisher and Store interfaces.
For more information on these assets, see Adding Assets.
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Resources and Collections
In the Registry level, an asset is transformed into one or more Resources, to store it in the configured database. Resource is a concept defined in the Registry.
Resources and Collections (analogous to files and folders on a file-system), are stored in the Registry. For more information on these assets, see Adding AssetsRepository of WSO2 Governance Registry. A Collection is modeled as a special type of Resource, inside which, you can represent other Resources and Collections. The Resources-layer of the WSO2 Governance Registry provides functionalities such as conducting validations on the storing process, storing associations among Resources, and catering management of the properties of Resources. Resource validations are done through Registry Handlers associated with a particular Resource media type. For more information on this, see Handler Sample and Managing Properties.
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Categorizing assets
There are two broad categories of artifacts found in the WSO2 Governance Registry as follows.
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