A common question from users of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is ‘what tooling should I use to generate the OWL and SACL files that represent classifications and lifecycles?’. SACL files can be generated with WebSphere Integration Developer but not everyone has this installed. In answer to this question, Ian Shore from the development team has written a developerWorks article providing a couple of utilities for generating OWL and SACL files from simple text files.