Web Services Essentials

Web-Based Searching

There are three options for searching UDDI:

• Internet Explorer now supports UDDI name resolution via the Real Names Keyword System. Just type “uddi” in the Internet Explorer address bar, followed by the name of the target company. For example, type “uddi ariba”.

• You may also go directly to the Microsoft UDDI site at http://uddi.microsoft.com.

• Or you can go directly to the IBM UDDI site at http://www-3.ibm.com/services/uddi/.

A sample screenshot of the Microsoft UDDI site is displayed in Figure 7-2. The Search box in the upper left enables you to search by business name.

Figure 7-2. The Microsoft UDDI home page; note the Search box in the upper left corner

To explore each of the core UDDI data types, let us consider a common search path. We’ll begin by searching for a specific business, selecting a business service, drilling down to a binding template, and finally retrieving the tModel technical specification. The search path is summarized as follows:

BusinessEntity
   -->  BusinessService
      -->  BindingTemplate
         -->  tModel record

To begin, type “XMethods” in the Search box. A list of matching results is displayed in Figure 7-3.

Figure 7-3. Searching for XMethods

When you click on the XMethods link, the complete XMethods businessEntity record is displayed, as shown in