The Need for a Registry API
Registries such as UDDI are SOAP-based, so you can always access them with a generic SOAP library. Java-specific APIs, such as UDDI4J, make it even easier to access these registries, but in the end, these access methods lock you into a specific registry. It would be much better if you could write web services that could store and retrieve registry information without tying yourself to a particular kind of registry.
The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) solves this problem by providing an implementation-independent way to access registries, similar to the way JDBC enables you to access different databases. JAXR consists of two parts: a JAXR provider and a JAXR client.
A JAXR provider provides the connection between ...
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