What is Petals Master?

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As a SOA repository, Petals Master can manage services, organizations, roles and establish relations between them.
Petals Master also aims at managing the life cycle and the versioning of services (from its creation, going through its development, to its end-life).
In a next future, it will also be possible to define Service Level Agreement (SLA) contracts and associate abstract policies.

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Relying on standards (UDDI Inquery, Web Service API and soon WS-Agreement), it allows both a direct usage (through a Web interface) and a direct communication with runtime platforms, such as [Petals ESB|petalsesb:Home}].

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Anyway, Petals Master is expected to play a major role in the use and the promotion of SOA best practices between service providers and service consumers.

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Petals Master supports 4 aspects:
* *Services management*: it allows you to add, browse and search services into the registry.
* *Organizations management*: it allows you to manage entities like organizations, posts and persons.
* Runtime (platforms) management: it allows you to connect Petals Master with a service execution environment like an Enterprise
* *Runtime (platforms) management*: it allows you to connect Petals Master with a service execution environment like an enterprise service bus (e.g. [Petals ESB|petalsesb:Home]), an application server, etc.
* *Administration*: it allows you to manage Petals Master database, settings, etc.

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The management of service's life cycle and SLA is planned but not already available.
Please, note that the application is available in English and soon in French!
Petals Master can be queried through Web services.
It currently supports 3 API:
* *UDDI Inquiry v2*.
* *UDDI Inquiry v3*.
* A custom Inquiry (not yet but soon) API.

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The management of *service's life cycle* and *SLA (with WS-Agreement)* is planned but not already available.
Please, note that the application is available in English and soon in French\!


h1. Software and Hardware Requirements

h1. Where can I get the source code?

The *source code* for Petals Master can be found on the [OW2 Forge|http://petalsmaster.ow2.org/source-repository.html].