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Flashline Announces Expansive Automation for SOA Repository

Flashline, a repository provider of SOA and software reuse, has announced comprehensive automation that transforms Flashline for SOA into an active, self-sustaining repository.

Flashline streamlines the inclusion and revision of software assets, allowing the repository to build and maintain itself automatically with minimal user intervention. This lowers the barriers to entry for organisations to govern SOA effectively and maximize reuse.

For companies just getting started, Flashline can selectively load existing components, Web services, and other assets that are already providing business value to the organisation.

For those who are managing more advanced change processes, Flashline automatically collects and updates business processes, Web services, components, architecture standards, and related software assets. This automation makes it possible for organizations to keep assets current, while at the same time optimizing SOA and reuse initiatives.

Flashline is releasing its new automation capabilities in several phases:

Web Service Harvesting: Flashline automatically catalogs Web services, and revises these registry entries based on changes to WSDL documentation.
Business Process Introspection for Business Alignment: Flashline is extending its Web service introspection to the BPEL (business process execution language) standard for business processes, enabling customers to automatically register and depict business processes according to how they are composed and running in production.
Architecture Evolution: Several members of Flashline's Customer Advisory Board are previewing Flashline's capabilities to selectively import, introspect, and update models of the to-be architecture, automatically loading the logical and physical components into the repository.
Automated Data Collection for Impact Analysis: New features extend Flashline's build harvesting capabilities to automatically discover changes in the relationships among different versions of software assets as the software is built.


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