UDDI ; What's that?

Question

At work I've been been given a task to make a "list" over our web service partners. This list will in turn be called by the business logic in our system, through some API, for easy access to our web service providers. At least this is how I understood it. I've also been told to use UDDI to accomplish this task.
Since I don't know the first thing about UDDI, I hope someone can at least explain the basics to me! Is UDDI a server I install and configure? Or is it an API I use? Are there any tutorials I can read?
Someone please help!

Answer 1

Hi,
At work I've been been given a task to make a "list"
over our web service partners. This list will in turn
be called by the business logic in our system,
through some API, for easy access to our web service
providers. At least this is how I understood it. I've
also been told to use UDDI to accomplish this task. UDDI is repository to describe the business entities and their business services.
If your web service partners have published their services in a public( http://test.uddi.microsoft.com ) or private UDDI repository, you can find the web services and their endpoints programatically using JAXR.
UDDI itself provides two services for finding business services and for publishing them.
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Since I don't know the first thing about UDDI, I hope
someone can at least explain the basics to me! Is
UDDI a server I install and configure? Or is it an
API I use? Are there any tutorials I can read?UDDI is a registry server, one can use a public server like UBR or you can run your own private UDDI registry server, depending on security issues, you need.
UBR can be found at
http://uddi.microsoft.com/default.aspx
Best of luck,
Vijay.
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Someone please help!hi,