UDDI
UDDI
is an
acronym for Universal
Description, Discovery, and Integration – A platform-independent,
XML-based
registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the
Internet.
UDDI is an open industry initiative (sponsored by
OASIS)
enabling businesses to discover each other and define how they interact over the
Internet. A UDDI business registration consists of three components:
- White
Pages - address, contact, and known identifiers;
- Yellow Pages - industrial
categorizations based on standard taxonomies; and
- Green Pages - technical
information about services exposed by the business
UDDI is a one
of the core Web Services standards. It is designed to be interrogated by
SOAP
messages and to provide access to
WSDL
documents describing the protocol bindings and message formats required to interact
with the web services listed in its directory.
See
also
