Whats in a UDDI Repository?
UDDI repositories contain information about businesses, services, and service bindings as well as additional metadata for categorization purposes. The way UDDI organizes this information is similar conceptually to how it’s done in a phone book with colored pages. UDDI uses white pages, yellow pages, and green pages the same way that the phone book does. The white pages include business name, address, and contact information. The yellow pages include categories based on standard taxonomies, and the green pages include the technical specifications and references (see Figure 7). UDDI registries support several types of lookups tailored for a variety of different user groups. Figure 7 UDDI Pages A UDDI registry contains four main types of information: businesses, services, binding templates, and tModels. Each business in the registry exposes basic information such as name, address, and contact info, as well as technical information related to its services. Each of the services consists of
