Extending the SO-Aware repository with custom metadata

One of the main features that SO-Aware provides is the central repository for storing service artifacts (WSLD, schemas, bindings) and configuration that any organization generates. This central repository is completely exposed as an OData service that third party applications and tools can easily consume using Http.

However, the initial SO-Aware release lack of support for extending the standard artifacts with custom metadata. For example, if you wanted to associate some external documentation to your WCF bindings or set the developer or owner for an specific service,  that was not supported out of the box.

Based on all the feedback we received from customers, we decided to include this feature in the latest version. From the UI standpoint, you will see a new tab “Custom Metadata” in every resource.

The custom metadata that you can associate to existing resources is represented by key/value pairs (Metadata Term and Value). For example, the Metadata term can be “Owner” and the value “Pablo Cibraro”.

SO-Aware will create also a dictionary of available “Metadata” terms that every user can reuse in the repository.  These metadata terms can also be queried and modified through the standard OData API that the repository exposes. 

Enjoy!!.