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).

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.

Community White Papers

We actively encourage UDDI community members to add links to other reports that discuss the UDDI standard and its implementations. Please add links here to outside white papers that you believe others in the UDDI community will find valuable.

The Evolution of UDDI

By emphasizing the interaction of private and public registries, Version 3 of the specification helps to bring the vision of wide deployment of web services closer to fruition. Indeed, by reflecting real-world use cases, this evolution supports the promise and reality of today's web services applications.

• Date: July 2002
• Author: Brent Sleeper
• Organization: The Stencil Group

Why UDDI Will Succeed, Quietly: Two Factors Push Web Services Forward

On UDDI's six-month birthday, we suggest that two aspects of the growing momentum for Web services-one economic, one technical-will help make a success of the standard for registering and discovering Web-based services. Bottom line, UDDI will succeed because its technical underpinnings work for the geeks.

• Date: April 2001
• Author: Brent Sleeper
• Organization: The Stencil Group