Software AG delivers a guide for building interoperability between SOA assets and maximizing the command and control capabilities of CentraSite ActiveSOA. The developer-driven reference guide reflects Software AG's active and growing CentraSite user community with the Cookbook format providing practical "recipes" that developers can utilize to build out an SOA ecosystem from disparate SOA assets. The guide supports recently released CentraSite ActiveSOA.

Matchmaker is implemented as an extension of the jUDDI which is an open source Java implementation of UDDI. You do not need to install jUDDI since it is included in the default installation package of the matchmaker starting from version 1.3. The web interface provides an intitutive interface for users to interact with the OWL-S/UDDI matchmaker. The interface allows users to build OWL-S descriptions which can be submitted as advertisement or query. The mapping between OWL-S to UDDI is performed performed at users browser using javascript.

There is a very useful summary of new features, UDDI Version 3 Features List, at http://www.uddi.org/pubs/uddi_v3_features.htm. It has one minor problem, viz., that its links back to the original specification are all broken.

In this point/counterpoint, Microsoft's Steven Martin, senior director of product management in the Connected Systems Division...tells us why UDDI rocks. "Six years ago, SOAP was something you washed your hands with, and cross-vendor system interoperability was a major obstacle facing CIOs and architects. Today, Web services technologies are ubiquitous. Every CIO worth his or her salt has a strategy for where Web services fits into the portfolio of IT investments.