Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)

A central piece of any online service infrastructure is a directory that stores the definition of all available services, enabling users to query the availability of the services before interacting with the specific service implementations. UDDI (http://www.uddi.org) is a platform-independent method of describing services, discovering service providers (businesses), and integrating with the services over the Internet. UDDI enables users to publish their services and business information, which is stored in a central repository. UDDI is based on SOAP; its data structure provides a framework for describing the service contracts and business information.

UDDI Data Types

The UDDI data structures ...

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