UDDI: Building Registry-Based Web Services Solutions

Chapter 11. Employee Portal Unfolded

• Corporate Employee Ecosystem

• Technology Quilt

• Modeling Business Entities

• Defining Categories and Interactions

• Final Analysis

Throughout the book, we used an employee portal as the basis for explaining UDDI-related concepts and demonstrating UDDI API usage. We have viewed UDDI from various perspectives: that of a service publisher, a service consumer, and of a solution deployer. Understanding these perspectives is critical in deploying any UDDI-based solution. However, it is also important to see how UDDI solves critical business problems. In this part of the book, we offer case studies and delve into how UDDI fits into larger business solutions.

In this chapter, we unfold the employee ecosystem of a global corporation ...