LogicLibrary, a provider of design-time SOA governance and software reuse, has released Logidex 5.5, the first product that enables Service Lifecycle Governance through integrations with HP SOA Systinet and IBM WSRR.

Logidex 5.5 features design-time policy management, expanded impact analysis and the ability to easily customize Smart Controls to address customer specific compliance requirements. Logidex 5.5 continues to make it easier than ever for developers and architects to create and manage world-class business applications, while delivering service lifecycle governance.

Logidex is a design-time repository/registry and governance hub, enabling organizations to actively track and manage services from design and development through deployment. Logidex's unique combination of a repository for services production, a registry for services and artifact consumption, and automated UDDI and ESB publication options provides governance capabilities for the entire SOA lifecycle. Logidex 5.5 is focused on delivering service lifecycle governance by providing design-time policy management capabilities and integration with HP SOA Systinet, an SOA service-centric system of record and SOA governance platform and IBM's WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), a leading run-time registry and repository tool.

Key deliverables for Logidex 5.5 include:
Design-Time Policy Management - Architecting and implementing a robust and flexible Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires the capability to manage interactions between services based on declarative and remediable policies. In Logidex 5.5, LogicLibrary addresses the "what" in governance via design-time policy management that complements the existing "how" delivered by Smart Controls governance capabilities. With Smart Controls, users can automatically validate services in the design lifecycle, isolating policy conformance issues before the services are published.

Expanded Impact Analysis - Understanding orchestration, service and schema dependencies is a crucial part of governing and maintaining an SOA. With this release of Logidex, users can parse multiple inputs such as BPEL, WSDL, XSD or any other type of XML document and automatically display the results graphically via Logidex's Asset Relationship Visualization option. This greatly simplifies the job of impact analysis, a crucial task in maintaining the ongoing health and stability of an organization's SOA.
Custom Smart Controls Requests - Logidex 5.5 extends its existing predefined production and consumption Smart Control processes, allowing customers to define their own checklist-type fields for asset submissions and acquisitions. Now customers can easily create site-specific governance policies to address requirements mandated by corporate compliance initiatives such as SOX, HIPAA or Basel.

Tight integration with IBM's WSRR - Enterprises are increasingly demanding consistent SOA policies, controls and governance across the service lifecycle ranging from service definition through design to the implementation, deployment and operational management of a service. The control and management of a service throughout the service lifecycle is vital to certifying the quality and usage of services. Logidex's automated integration with WSRR enables IT organizations to connect and synchronize their design-time (Logidex) and runtime (WSRR) service/asset registry/repository and governance efforts, improving both organizational efficiency and information consistency through automated integrations. This integration will be expanded to include other market leading SOA solution such as HP SOA Systinet.

For more information, see www.logiclibrary.com.