nWeb services are meaningful only if potential users may
find information sufficient
to permit their execution.
nThe focus of Universal Description Discovery &
Integration (UDDI) is the
definition of a set of services supporting the description and discovery of
¨(1) businesses, organizations, and other Web services
providers,
¨(2) the Web services they make available, and
¨(3) the technical interfaces which may be used to access
those services.
nBased on a common set of industry standards, including
HTTP, XML, XML Schema, and
SOAP, UDDI provides an interoperable, foundational infrastructure for a Web services-based
software environment for both
publicly available services and services only exposed internally within an organization.
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