I have spent the past few weeks educating myself on WebSphere Service Registry and Repository which became generally available last Friday. This is one of the new products forming part of the today’s SOA launch. The launch has focused on how the product can be used to enforce the governance of services (through the use of a state machine to define the service lifecycle) but, given my focus on all things ESB, my main interest is in the use of the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository to support dynamic allocation of service endpoints.