UDDI principles

The UDDI specifications provide a standardized way to connect service publishers to service subscribers both within and between organizations. Businesses can discover each other and locate exposed service functionality using searches that are based on standard classifications. The UDDI specification, which is built upon existing standards such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), was collaboratively developed by a number of industry and business leaders.

A UDDI registry contains programmatically accessible descriptions of businesses and the services they support. Services can be classified by their support for industry-specific specifications and by taxonomy definitions, which are used for meaningful categorization of services. Identification systems are also employed for meaningful identification of businesses.

UDDI specifies a programming model (API) and data structures that define how consumers can communicate with the registry. All...