Skip to Content
Web Services Essentials
book

Web Services Essentials

by Ethan Cerami
February 2002
Beginner
308 pages
8h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Web Services Essentials

Service Discovery: UDDI

UDDI currently represents the discovery layer within the web service protocol stack. UDDI was originally created by Microsoft, IBM, and Ariba, and represents a technical specification for publishing and finding businesses and web services.

At its core, UDDI consists of two parts. First, UDDI is a technical specification for building a distributed directory of businesses and web services. Data is stored within a specific XML format. The UDDI specification includes API details for searching existing data and publishing new data. Second, the UDDI Business Registry is a fully operational implementation of the UDDI specification. Launched in May 2001 by Microsoft and IBM, the UDDI registry now enables anyone to search existing UDDI data. It also enables any company to register itself and its services.

The data captured within UDDI is divided into three main categories:

White pages

This category includes general information about a specific company; for example, business name, business description, and address.

Yellow pages

This category includes general classification data for either the company or the service offered. For example, this data may include industry, product, or geographic codes based on standard taxonomies.

Green pages

This category includes technical information about a web service (a pointer to an external specification and an address for invoking the web service).

Figure 1-13 shows a sample screenshot of the Microsoft UDDI site. From this ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Web Services

Web Services

Anura Guruge
Understanding SOA with Web Services

Understanding SOA with Web Services

Eric Newcomer, Greg Lomow

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596002246Purchase bookErrata Page