Service Supplier

Role: Publishes services with aligned metadata, ensuring discoverability, traceability, and easy consumption by others.

As outlines in the sections Services and Service Management and Platform Mesh: Service Supplier Perspective, a service in its most general form is a solution or active entity, which offers some API to its consumer. To make a service available, the supplier must register a service provider, which manages one or more services, in a service marketplace. The registration should include all necessary information for potential consumers, including API definitions. Open Resource Discovery facilitates consistent interface modeling across distributed systems, enabling standardized service description, discoverability, and streamlined integration within complex architectures.