What is UDDI?

The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) protocol is a a platform-independent framework for managing Web services relationships and interactions. A UDDI registry classifies, catalogs, and manages Web services, so that they can be discovered and consumed by other applications.

What is the current status of UDDI?

UDDI currently stands at version 3.0.2, ratified in February 2005. This version provides key capabilities for enterprise-level deployment and is a mature, well-supported standard. Its feature definitions are stable and backwards-compatible with earlier versions of the standard.

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This is another example of how to handle user-submitted information. The intro material, instructions, etc., would be entered here in the main body. Then, users can add their info via the comments function.

This style of page illustrates method one for supporting user-contributed information. It consists of one page per item submitted. Its feasibility depends upon whether or not we can create an index page that automatically updates a hierarchy/directory of pages. So the user will post his/her info here and also can attach a file that will be associated with the post. This approach would be great for user-submitted white papers, case studies, etc.