WSO2 Governance Registry stores governance metadata and information on governance related entities. Registry resources storing this information and/or metadata are known as governance artifacts. For more information, see Governance Artifacts.
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Introducing SOAP and REST Services
WSO2 Governance Registry previous releases represent both REST and SOAP based Services as of RXT Service type (i.e. a configurable Governance Artifact). However, there are many differences between SOAP and REST based Services and these two types have their unique properties/attributes as well. Thereby, WSO2 Governance Registry 5.0.0 1 introduces new RXT types called SOAP Service and REST Service in the Publisher as shown below.
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