SEARCH CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT IN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM

A system and associated method for searching a web service registry system by use of a search controller. The web service registry system has components of the search controller, a service registry, a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer. The search controller receives a service name from a user of the web service registry system. The service registry is searched with the service name to find a service description associated with the service name. If the service description is not found, the search controller coordinates another search with a candidate service name that substitutes the service name for searching the service registry. The candidate service name is generated by use of the name parser, the dictionary, and the name composer. The search controller discovers the service description associated with the candidate service name and returns to a user of the service registry system.