WS-Governance Tooling: SOA Governance Policies Analysis and Authoring

Governance is a capital issue in current Service Oriented Arcuitectures, and governance policies are at its base. The governance policies definition must be supported by proper languages and tools, allowing for comfortable and collaborative editing, consistency checking and the evaluation policy meeting. In this paper we present a policy analizer for WS-Governance(a governance policy definition language created by authors, described in) together with an online editor and test suite with classical examples of WS-Governance Documents for consistency validation. Both the test model and the analysis tool prove the suitability of WS-Governance to define SOA governance policies.