Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

Publishing an XML Web Service

Because XML Web services aim to share functionality between organizations, there needs to be some mechanism that enables an interested party to discover which XML Web services another entity offers. The most ambitious part of this strategy is the UDDI registry, which is still in its infancy. Essentially, UDDI is a specification that defines how an XML Web service registry should be organized and how XML Web services can be registered programmatically. There are currently several test UDDI implementations, including the Microsoft Registry at http://uddi.microsoft.com/developer. You can find general information about the UDDI standard at http://www.uddi.org. A link in a UDDI registry can point to a WSDL document or ...