Registry Use Model
A registry has two types of users: sellers and buyers. A seller is an organization that creates a Web service and publishes it in the registry. A buyer is an organization that queries the registry to find and engage the seller in a business collaboration.
Figure 9.1 shows how seller and buyer organizations use a registry to engage in B2B collaborations.
Figure 9.1. Registry use model.
First, a vertical standards organization such as RosettaNet defines a specification for a particular business process. These specifications include information such as the XML structure that is to be followed by the organizations that use the specification. ...
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