11.15. Private UDDI Implementations

As organizations rely on Web services to integrate business applications, there will be a need to maintain a catalog of all Web services available within an organization and to search this catalog both at design and runtime. Instead of reinventing the wheel, organizations can use private implementations of UDDI to act as this internal catalog of Web services. This provides a standards-based catalog that allows different departments or divisions to use different development tools while still interoperating with the same catalog. In addition, because the private catalog exposes the same API as the public UDDI registry, whatever code you write to interact with the private catalog can be easily changed to interact ...

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