Mule Galaxy^™gives your organization a single source of truth for the governance and management of your Service Oriented Architecure (SOA).

As service oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives continue to grow in importance at the enterprise level, and as the number of in-use services continues to escalate, the need to realize the full power of SOA through governance and service reuse becomes increasingly urgent.

By providing a full complement of SOA governance, registry and repository features -- including lifecycle, dependency and artifact management, along with auto-discovery of services and reporting, Mule Galaxy helps you get control over your infrastructure.

In addition to services, Mule Galaxy also acts as a repository for WS* frameworks, Mule configurations and any other artifact that needs management and governance. Galaxy makes these artifacts accessible via a web browser or Atom Publishing interface for ease of use and consumption.

A unique feature of Mule Galaxy is Mule NetBoot^™, which enables easier management and deployment of applications. NetBoot is able to load applications remotely from the repository, making Galaxy the central source of truth as to which applications and versions are deployed. To upgrade or roll back to a previous version of an application or Mule distribution, the developer simply updates the application in the repository, and NetBoot dynamically loads both the application and the Mule distribution over the network.

Galaxy can be deployed either alongside the Mule^® ESB and tools as a part of a larger Mule architecture, or as a standalone component in an enterprise's SOA infrastructure.