Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, or UDDI, provides a standard framework to describe, discover, and integrate business services over the web. UDDI works much like a telephone directory. Service providers use UDDI to deploy their web services on service registries. Consumers search the service registries to identify web services. After the web service has been identified, SOAP is used to access the web service. The registering and searching of web services is enabled by various Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, that help publish and locate these web services in a UDDI service registry.

Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

  • Describe the functions of the UDDI registry
  • Discuss the elements of a UDDI registry
  • Describe the UDDI APIs