What is "s-ramp"

SOA Repository Artifact Model & Protocol (S-RAMP) is a specification of SOA repository released by HP, IBM, Software AG, TIBCO, and Red Hat. The SOA repository provides environments for designing, running and monitoring services. The repository manages artifacts like schemas (e.g. XML Schema or RELAX NG), service descriptions (e.g. WSDL), business process definitions (e.g. BPEL) and policies (e.g. WS-Policy). The SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) defines a common data model for SOA repositories as well as an interaction protocol to facilitate the use of common tooling and sharing of data. This ATOM binding specifications documents the syntax for interaction with a compliant repository for create, read, update, delete and query operations. The S-RAMP specification promotes interoperability of SOA Repositories. The S-RAMP specification is one of the SOA standards.

The current version is 1.0. S-RAMP is supported by a Technical Committee at OASIS.

Red Hat's Open Source Artificer Project fully implements the S-RAMP specification and is considered to be the defacto Reference Implementation. Everything you ever wanted to know about S-RAMP but were afraid to ask demos Artificer and explains S-RAMP concepts.