The most elemental building blocks for the WSRR content model are service metadata artifact documents (physical documents), such as XSD or WSDL files.
These service metadata documents are stored and managed in WSRR. The coarse-grained model made up from registry objects that represent those documents is referred to as the physical model.
Documents are versionable objects in WSRR content model, meaning that in addition to a URI, name and description they also have a version property.
Any service metadata artifact type can be stored in WSRR and receive the benefits of broader visibility and reuse, management, and governance.
WSRR offers advanced functions for a number of well-known SOA metadata types. The key WSRR metadata document types are: WSDL, XSD, WS-Policy and SCDL; for those document types WSRR provides special services, including "shredding" of the documents upon receipt into logical derivations.
Other types of service metadata can be stored by using a generic content type of XMLDocument. Documents of type XMLDocument are not decomposed into logical derivations.
Arbitrary binary data can also be stored by using a document of type GenericDocument.