Chapter 8. The UDDI Publishing API

Organizations use the Publishing API to add, change, and delete information in a UDDI registry. This API allows organizations to save their own businessEntity, businessService, bindingTemplate, tModel, and publisherAssertion data structures in a UDDI registry, and to remove them when necessary.

Like the Inquiry API, the Publishing API is a full-fledged Web service based on SOAP's Document/Literal mode of messaging, and is described by a WSDL document. Unlike the Inquiry API, the Publishing API requires that UDDI operators use HTTPS (HTTP with SSL 3.0) for confidentiality and some form of authentication. In addition, every message—except for the login—must include an authorization token that is automatically issued ...

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