BEA® WebLogic Platform 7

Chapter 31. Discovering Web Services

In This Chapter

• Introduction

• What Is UDDI?

• How Does UDDI Work?

• The UDDI API at a Glance

• UDDI Features in WebLogic Server

• The WebLogic UDDI Client Proxy

• The WebLogic UDDI Directory Explorer

Introduction

Now it’s time to answer these questions: How can I advertise my Web service? What is the best searching mechanism that will produce the most precise and appropriate list of possible Web services that will meet my needs? This chapter briefly introduces the standard in Web service registries, Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI), and what it has to offer. UDDI is an initiative conceived and sponsored by a private consortium of technology companies named uddi.org. This chapter then explains how WebLogic ...