The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specifications
provide a standardized way for businesses to discover each other over the
Internet and find details of services provided. UDDI is a combination of
White Pages (contacts, addresses, telephone numbers), Yellow Pages (listing
by industry classification), and Green Pages (technical details of services
offered). UDDI is indeed universal in scope, in that the services offered can
be anything from a telephone number to a SOAP endpoint for a Web service.
Businesses that want to publish their details on the Internet can use either
a Web interface provided by one of the public UDDI operators (currently IBM
and Microsoft), or a programmatic interface from within their IT systems.
Information published to one public UDDI repository becomes replicated to the
other public repositories automatically.
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