UDDI.org White Papers

UDDI.org has published two educational white papers in conjunction with the formal ratification of version 3 of the standard; the first presents an executive overview of UDDI and its business value to implementors of web services-based infrastructure. The second highlights key features of the standard, with an emphasis on features new to version 3. Note: These white papers are published in PDF format. To view a PDF document, you must have a copy of Adobe Reader or other PDF-compatible software installed on your computer. If you do not have this software installed, you can download a free copy from Adobe Systems, Inc.

UDDI Executive Overview: Enabling Service-Oriented Architecture

The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol is a key member of the group of interrelated standards that comprise the Web services stack. It defines a standard method for publishing and discovering the network-based software components of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). This paper discusses the strategic rationale for UDDI and analyzes its enabling role in the context of today's enterprise Web services applications. A companion slide presentation is also provided (available in PDF and PowerPoint formats).

Introduction to UDDI: Important Features and Functional Concepts

This paper provides a concise overview of the UDDI standard and highlights significant architectural changes in the recent Version 3 specification. The paper covers key functional concepts in the UDDI specification including its data model and programmatic interfaces. Also covered in this paper is a description of registry affiliation - a key feature enabled by the UDDI v3 specification.

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The following sites provide additional information to learn more about UDDI and related Web services standards. UDDI community members are encouraged to add additional resources to this page.

OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee

The home and working documents of the official UDDI specification.

Cover Pages Technology Report

Good news and summary resources for UDDI, Web services, and XML-related technologies.

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UDDI is endorsed by organizations and individuals around the globe. UDDI supporters are invited to add a testimonial to this page. 

(Listed in alphabetical order by organization name.)

Computer Associates
"As the adoption of Web services by businesses worldwide continues to grow, it's becoming more important to effectively provide reliable and standards-based discovery of these services. Along with advances in the standards for management and security of Web services, these latest enhancements to UDDI will help enterprises address these challenges and will, therefore, promote broader adoption of Web services and drive development of business solutions that take advantage of interoperability between multiple Web services."
--Toby J Weiss, Senior Vice President of eTrust Product Management, Computer Associates

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UDDI.org White Papers

UDDI.org published two educational white papers in conjunction with the formal ratification of version 3 of the standard; the first presents an executive overview of UDDI and its business value to implementors of web services-based infrastructure. The second highlights key features of the standard, with an emphasis on features new to version 3.

UDDI Executive Overview: Enabling Service-Oriented Architecture
The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol is a key member of the group of interrelated standards that comprise the Web services stack. It defines a standard method for publishing and discovering the network-based software components of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). This paper discusses the strategic rationale for UDDI and analyzes its enabling role in the context of today's enterprise Web services applications. A companion slide presentation is also provided (available in PDF and PowerPoint formats).

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UDDI products and components ship from multiple vendors, consortia and also available as open source. These products and components fall in various categories such as UDDI Registry Server, UDDI-enabled IDEs and development tools, Java and .NET client toolkits and browsers, and UDDI-integrated Web services platforms. Providers of UDDI solutions are encouraged to add their own products to this list.

The following information is not comprehensive and is provided as a community resource by the organizations listed, which are solely responsible for the accuracy of the entries. OASIS encourages readers to evaluate this information independently.

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