This animation depicts how the publishing APIs work with a UDDI registry.

In the animation, a barrel labeled UDDI is partially obscured by a page that contains a few lines. This barrel is connected by two arrows to a block labeled Publishing API Functions, which contains a list of APIs in eight sub-blocks. The first four APIs fall under the save category. The other four APIs belong to the delete category. When the arrow leads from the save APIs towards the UDDI barrel, some lines get added to the page placed next to the UDDI barrel. When the arrow leads from the delete APIs towards the UDDI barrel, some lines are deleted from the page placed next to the UDDI barrel.