Web Services Essentials

Publishing UDDI Data

UDDI publishing requests must be sent via an SSL connection and are restricted to authorized users only. To specify an HTTPS URL, use the setPublishURL( ) method. To obtain user authorization, you must use the proxy get_authToken( ) method. This method requires a username and password and returns an authentication token, which must be passed to all subsequent publishing methods.

Our final example illustrates how to save a new businessEntity record, and also illustrates the generic technique for obtaining a user authentication token. The code creates a new businessEntity record for Acme Parts, then confirms that the record was published by extracting and displaying the new businessKey.

The program expects two command-line arguments, in which you can specify a username and password. For example, the following command line:

java com.ecerami.uddi.saveBusiness [e-mail] oreilly

generates the following output:

Saving New Business:  Acme Parts
Authentication Token:1IbuzUmG2DuPzkcoUd1I6iy*BqWwxPhuFWf2!ggowk*6Kiznlu4sjQeJT
OnuL2c1Smm8m28aogU!I6ZL73yROf3Q$$;1IbuzUmG2AoqvPmRavvTeO1UsaVLQk0AmGYVyyxwk3
    2Kb4
c3jMROMo4Rlp7kaQYRCXu9!95wQ8FZTIjE!47uKC9NPCCryf0Yh!IltwfYMCaPKTq*R0rTWMrzcg
    UWEt
!g859iKxlE*w7QPIx8n8aYWs8WCkAn7UHwyb
Published Business Key:  3deafa60-0023-4220-b3e0-0c87cb34526a

Example 9-3 includes a UDDIUtil class that is responsible for authenticating users. Note that the class specifies an SSL provider:

System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol"); ...