UDDI

Bringing Order to Enterprise Service Proliferation

Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:07:55 EDT

UDDI has been around for almost three years now. It has gone from an initial proposal by three companies (Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft), to a consortium effort (www.uddi.org) with a community of hundreds, and finally into the hands of the OASIS standards body.

Web Service Versioning and Deprecation

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:00:00 EST

Current standards for SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI have no explicit support for the versioning and deprecation of Web services. This article introduces a means for Web service versioning and deprecation that is lightweight and flexible, and requires minimal development effort.

Understanding UDDItModels and Taxonomies

Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:00 EST

The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specifications provide a standardized way for businesses to discover each other over the Internet and find details of services provided. UDDI is a combination of White Pages (contacts, addresses, telephone numbers), Yellow Pages (listing by industry classification), and Green Pages (technical details of services offered). UDDI is indeed universal in scope, in that the services offered can be anything from a telephone number to a SOAP endpoint for a Web service.