Web Services Essentials

Name

find_relatedBusinesses

Synopsis

The find_relatedBusinesses function searches for businesses related to the specified businessKey. UDDI 2.0 provides improved support for describing complex organizations. For example, a business can publish business units, departments, or divisions and tie them together under one umbrella. Business relationships are created via the uddi-org:relationships tModel record (uuid:807A2C6A-EE22-470D-ADC7-E0424A337C03). UDDI 2.0 supports three relationship values:

parent-child

Used to indicate a parent-child relationship. For example, a holding company that owns a subsidiary may choose to publish a parent-child relationship.

peer-peer

Used to indicate two peer entities. For example, two divisions within one company may choose to publish a peer-peer relationship.

identity

Used to indicate that two entities represent the same organization.

The find_relatedBusinesses function is used to discover businesses that have been related via the uddi-org:relationships model. The response includes a root relatedBusinessesList element. If the UDDI operator returns only a partial list of matching results, the relatedBusinessesList element’s truncated attribute will be set to true. If no matches are found, a relatedBusinessesList element with zero subelements is returned.

Version: 2.0

2.0 syntax:

<find_relatedBusinesses generic="2.0" xmlns="urn:uddi-org:api_v2">
   [<findQualifiers/>]
   <businessKey/>
   [<keyedReference/>]
</find_relatedBusinesses>

Arguments:

findQualifiers ...