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This blog post explains about the service discovery capability of WSO2 Governance Registry. If you have heard about UDDI and WS-Discovery, we used those technologies to discover Services during 2009-2013 time. What is UDDI: UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. It is seen with SOAP and WSDL as one of the three foundation standards of web services. It uses Web Service Definition Language(WSDL) to describe the services. What is WS-Discovery: WS-Discovery is a standard protocol for dynamically discovering service endpoints. Using WS-Discovery, service providers multicast and advertise their endpoints with others. Since most of the modern services are REST based, above two approaches are considered as dead nowadays. Both UDDI and WS-Discovery target for SOAP based services and they are very bulky. In addition to that, industry is moving from Service Registry concept to Asset Store(Governance Center), and people tend to use REST API and Discovery clients.

The Maven Compiler Plugin is used to compile the java source code of your project. The default compiler is javac and is used to compile Java sources. By modifying pom.xml file, you can customize the default behavior of Maven Compiler Plugin.  Using Maven Compiler Plugin, you can compile the source code of a certain project to a different version of JVM than what you are currently using. EX: compile using JDK 1.8 and target JVM is 1.7. Default source setting is JDK 1.5, and the default target setting is JDK 1.5 Example configuration is as below: <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.5.1</version> <configuration> <source>1.7</source> <target>1.7</target> </configuration> </plugin> &l