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UDDI nodes will replicate each other daily, so that all registries remain
current.
The choice to use an internal or an external UDDI server is based on how much
we want to make the service public. Most times, just as in our External Claim
Assessors scenario, Web services are used in B2B applications and only
accessed by a restricted team of corporates having special agreements. In this
case, the internal UDDI registry or simply the direct provisioning of the WSDL file
is usually preferred.
From an interoperability point of view, the key difference between the use of a
public or private UDDI registry is that, in the case of public UDDI Business
Registries, both IBM and Microsoft have their own registry ...