Chapter 11. UDDI: A Web Service
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
—Albert Szent-Gyorgi
In a world full of Web services, Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) becomes an extremely valuable component. As a service built into Windows .NET server, UDDI is also likely to become the de-facto standard Web services catalog within the enterprise. Therefore, to complete the Web services story, I will explain what UDDI is and the scenarios where applications can benefit from private and public UDDI implementations. I will focus on writing UDDI-enabled applications that communicate with UDDI as a SOAP-based Web service.
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