What is UDDI?
UDDI is one of the three foundations of Web services. It provides a registry of services that can be used both to allow application developers to find appropriate services, and as a meta-data store that can allow the fabric to abstract developers from service and fabric location and policy requirements. From www.developer.com: “(Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)—An XML-based lookup service for locating Web Services in an Internet scenario.
The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) specifications define a registry service for Web services and for other electronic and non-electronic services. A UDDI registry service is a Web service that manages information about service providers, service implementations, and service metadata. Service providers can use UDDI to advertise the services they offer. Service consumers can use UDDI to discover services that suit their requirements and to obtain the service metadata needed to consume those services. The UDDI specifications define: a) SOAP APIs that applications use to query and to publish information to a UDDI registry b) XML Schema schemata of the registry data model and the SOAP message formats c) WSDL definitions of the SOAP APIs d) UDDI registry definitions (technical models – tModels) of various identifier and category systems that may be used to identify and categorize UDDI registrations The UDDI Spec TC also develops technical notes and best practice docu
