Chapter {6}

UDDI

The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) specification defines a platform-independent framework for businesses to describe their publicly available services, discover other services, and share information about points of interaction in a global registry. UDDI is a building block that enables organizations to quickly find and conduct business transactions with other organizations, using open standards.

The UDDI specification is an attempt for organizations to accomplish the following:

• Discover the right partner to conduct business with, out of the millions that exist on the Internet today

• Create an industry–accepted, standardized approach to reach partners and customers with information on their services ...

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