The Guvnor project is home to the Governance Repository utilities and tools. The Overlord project for “Governance” requires a repository for governing and managing artifacts, such as rule and process definitions, service descriptions, databases schemas, etc. This is Guvnor! The repository stores the artifacts and provides services for querying, uploading, exploring, curating, and managing them. Storing descriptions of services, along with their metadata, contracts, configuration files, etc., and then managing the lifecycle of these services from analysis through deployment, and allowing access to this information through various interfaces (web, Eclipse) is what Guvnor is all about. A user may locate some reusable XSD via the web, sync it into their eclipse workspace, and then have it shared via an atompub “feed” to runtime systems - this is all guvnor.
