4. The method of claim 1 , said ascertaining comprising: sorting the ranked alternative service name list by respective rank of said each alternative service name; and searching the service registry for the service description with said at least one alternative service name from a top entry of the ranked alternative service name such that the service description is associated with the highest ranked alternative service name.
1. A method for advanced searching of a service registry for a service description that most closely matches a service name provided by a user, the method comprising: receiving the service name, by a processor of a computer on which a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) service registry system runs, wherein the SOA service registry system comprises the service registry, a name parser, a dictionary, and a name composer, and wherein the service registry comprises at least one service description searchable by a respectively associated service name; determining that the service name does not have the service description that is an exact match to the received service name in the service registry; generating a ranked alternative service name list by use of the name parser, the dictionary, and the name composer, wherein the ranked alternative service name list comprises at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name of said at least one alternative service name, wherein the respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user; ascertaining that the service description matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the alternative service name list by searching the service registry with said at least one alternative service name in a descending order of the respective ranks of said at least one alternative service name; and communicating the service description matching the highest ranked alternative service name to the user.