Patent ID: 8214339

Claim:
A method of loading document files into a service registry, comprising: employing a processor for profile typing document files for loading into the service registry of a service oriented architecture (SOA) computing environment; automatically identifying a profile of each document file by: introspection, wherein the introspection includes parsing each document file, and identifying the profile of each document file from a set of service registry document types, wherein each of the service registry document types comprise one or more of: definitions, schema, policy, module, and extensible markup language (XML); providing a definition file including predefined file name patterns, wherein each predefined file name pattern corresponds to a service registry document type; matching a file name of the document file to a predefined file name pattern; setting the profile of the document file to a service registry document type corresponding to the predefined file name pattern; introspecting the document file to confirm the accuracy of the profile; and batch loading the document files into the service registry based on their corresponding profile.