17. A system for truncating character strings in a computing environment, comprising: a hardware processor; and a user interface device that uses the hardware processor for receiving a list including plural character strings, and truncating one or more of the character strings for generating a display list of unique character strings based on determining a truncation location within each string by: for each character string, comparing the string and corresponding Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), if the string is different from the URI, then truncating the beginning of the string, otherwise if the string matches the URI, then truncating the end of the string; wherein the user interface device uses the hardware processor to display the character strings of the display list in context with each other on a user interface.
21. The system of claim 17 , wherein the computing environment comprises a service oriented architecture (SOA) computing environment including a service registry of character strings.