Chapter 4. Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. | ||
--Antonin Scalia |
UDDI is in effect the publicity arm for Web services. It satisfies the self-advertising mandate of Web services. It is a standardized process to publish and discover information about Web services (as well as other services) programmatically or via a graphical user interface, which would typically be Web based. OASIS, which took over the stewardship for this technology as of July 2002, has a subheading in the “UDDI.org” section of its Web site that states: “Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration of Web Services.” Appending the two crucial words “Web services” to UDDI ...
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