Who, what, when and where
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What is UDDI? What does UDDI stand for?
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The UDDI (Uniform Description, Discovery and Integration Agreement) program is a broad, open industry program that enables business entities to (1) discover each other, (2) define how they interact on the internet and share information in a global registration architecture. UDDI is such a basic system building module that enables commercial entities to quickly and easily use their own enterprise application software to discover appropriate commercial peer entities and implement electronic commercial trade with them.
UDDI is also a framework for web service integration. It contains standard specifications for service description and discovery. The UDDI specification uses many standards of W3C and Internet Engineering Task Organization (IETF) as the basis for its implementation, such as Extended Markup Language (XML), HTTP and Domain Name Service (DNS). In addition, in the cross-platform design characteristics, UDDI mainly adopts an earlier version of the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) specification that has been proposed to W3C.
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What is the significance of UDDI release? Why is UDDI a compelling plan?
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Through this open plan, companies can publish relevant information and technical specifications for how they expect business processes to be connected on the Web, which potentially provides impetus for the growth of B2B commerce. UDDI will make all trade profitable by creating a global, independent platform that uses the Internet to discover business opportunities, describe services and integrate business.
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Why did Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft come together to create UDDI?
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The three companies have worked together before the UDDI standard, such as the formulation of XML, SOAP and cXML specifications. They come together as initial catalysts to guide the development teams of industry leaders and quickly bring new web service specifications to the market through collaboration, thus making businesses more profitable.
It is clear that the three companies, together with other business and technology leaders, have agreed to propose such an open standard specification and implementation that serves the Internet-based service architecture that enables the integration of e-commerce sites and web services.
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Who will "operate" UDDI?
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The UDDI program is not actually operated by any existing company. At the same time, it is not a standard entity or a new company. In fact, UDDI is now having a group of industry leaders involved in specification creation and design. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the UDDI specification will be transformed into a standards organization with the ongoing support of the cross-industry development team that launched the UDDI program. We encourage other companies to participate in the UDDI program.
The UDDI Business Registration Center is operated as a web service that supports the UDDI specification. Initially, Ariba, IBM and Microsoft will operate this distributed service, but additional registry access portals (operator) are still expected. An operator Council will assist in formulating the operator's policy and service quality issues.
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What problems does UDDI solve and what benefits can we get from them?
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Problems that UDDI targets and expects to solve include:
Enable businesses to quickly discover the right and right business entities from millions of businesses online.
It defines how to enable enterprise applications to process dock with discovered preferred business entities through e-commerce.
Creates an industry-wide accepted approach for businesses to enable business entities to find information about their customers and partners, as well as the products and web services they provide, while enabling integration of each other's systems and processes.
The direct benefits available from UDDI include:
Enterprises with UDDI capabilities can quickly and easily discover the right business entities and achieve interoperability with each other through their preferred enterprise applications on the Internet, which will ultimately drive the company's own economic benefits.
It provides a convenient development path for enterprises to quickly participate in the global Internet economy.
Provides a pathway for business to describe their services and business processes step by step in a simple open environment.
A set of specifications is provided that enables businesses to call services on the Internet and provide value-added services to their preferred customers.
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What type of commercial entities will use UDDI?
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UDDI Business Registration Center is open to all commercial entities and global industries. It will make all small, medium and large enterprises profit, regardless of what industry they belong to and what products or services they provide.
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What is the difference between UDDI and the existing enterprise directory on Interet today?
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The representative business directory existing on the Internet today only lists basic information of the company, such as name, address, contact information, some product and service information, and necessary industrial classification methods. They do not list the programming portal description of the web services provided by the enterprise.
UDDI is a centralized shared resource designed to be a centralized shared resource for this data, which can serve existing directories and search engines. This also indicates that most customers and business entities will still be able to continue to use existing search engines and enterprise directories as their preferred method to browse enterprise information registered in the UDDI Business Registration Center. UDDI Business Registration Center is a basic module that provides services such as publishing information and service descriptions for enterprises, discovering information and services provided by enterprises, and completing interoperability of business processes between enterprises.
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What makes it different from the B2B trading market that already exists today?
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For participants in existing B2B trading markets, they are typically invited and joined this particular economic system, while also following the technical infrastructure used by the B2B trading market. There are now hundreds of electronic trading markets, most of which use different application technologies. A supplier in a vertical market may not be able to simply participate in a horizontal market that is applying another different application standard. UDDI Business Registration Center will help businesses in different electronic trading markets to discover potential trading partners with the same technology as them, while UDDI also encourages new web services to switch from one technology standard to another. This will help form a unified business and market environment through the use of such a unified set of specifications that are described and integrated.
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What is the development path and time plan for UDDI?
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The development path of the UDDI program will be determined by institutions that have committed to supporting the development and strengthening of UDDI specifications. The UDDI specification will transition to one or more third-party standard entities over a period of 12 to 18 months, which will be inevitable.
The public draft version 1.0 of the UDDI specification was released on September 6, 2000. The UDDI development community will create two subsequent versions of the specification in a shorter period of time. The specification for both versions will take about 6 months and will be completed before it is completely transformed into a standard entity.
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Why do enterprises use UDDI?
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UDDI's capabilities far exceed the capabilities of the existing enterprise catalogs of the Internet today, and existing enterprise catalogs provide descriptions of enterprise information, but this is limited and far from enough. The benefits it can bring to the business are historic through wide acceptance of this standard in all industries and/or programs. Companies with UDDI capabilities will gain unprecedented value from the rapid acceleration of e-commerce, which is the ultimate result of this globally accepted plan.
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What type of organizations will use UDDI?
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We expect all types of commercial entities to register their information and the services they can provide at UDDI Business Registration Center. We also want programmers, independent software openers, and standard entities to register and describe the types of specification services, and these business entities will be able to use these type definitions to define the preferred method of their trade in the web services.
A sample survey on "companies that expect to benefit from UDDI":
Large organizations: Fortune 2000, Fortune 500, large manufacturers with hundreds of suppliers, international financial institutions, suppliers of medical facilities, etc.
Small and medium-sized enterprises: regional wholesalers, service/consulting companies, local area goods retailers and services, small sports merchandise stores, etc.
Independent software manufacturers (ISVs) and software integrators: ERP software suppliers, network companies, five major consulting companies, software developers in local areas, etc.
The creator of the trading market: the provider of the online trading market, the level trading market, the business information exchange center of the enterprise, etc.
Industry and Standards Organization: IT Standards Organization and vertical industries in institutions or associations.
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What are the participants in UDDI?
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There are so many industry leaders and industry core businesses in the long list of members participating in the UDDI program. The UDDI program is an open process that welcomes the participation of technology and business leaders.
A list of UDDI development community members is available from /community.
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What kind of business opportunities does UDDI offer for independent software manufacturers, large enterprises, system integrators or trading markets?
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Having potential business opportunities is very important for the widespread adoption of UDDI specifications. UDDI is closely related to sharing enterprise information, connecting business services and applications, and achieving seamless interoperability on the Internet. UDDI can automate the following processes:
Business entities will be able to describe their services and business processes in a global, open environment like the Internet, thus expanding the scope of their business.
Potential trading partners will quickly and quickly discover and interact with each other through the preferred application they use on the Internet, saving time in business operations.
The adverse factors that hinder their accelerated participation in the global Internet economy will be eliminated for enterprises in any field.
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How can I get more information on UDDI?
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Recent information can be discovered through access. The information on the website includes both information about UDDI specifications (including information about implementation and technical white papers, feedback mechanisms, technical news related to technical specifications, technical forums, and other related information), and of course, it also includes a list of access portals for UDDI Business Registration Center.
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What is the composition of UDDI members?
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Our goal is to create a broad corporate community that comes together and in a relatively short period of time, the infrastructure and implementation specifications for Web Services that describe, discover and integrate services for the enterprise. So far, more than 250 companies and institutions have joined UDDI's development group. We treat all UDDI development groups equally, and relevant information can be seen from the development group's column page.
To make this project with so many participants go smoothly, a subset of all members in the organization will participate and develop a draft of the V2 and V3 specifications. We believe this is a relatively effective method at the design stage, and when the draft is formulated, all members of the organization will participate in the evaluation and revision. We encourage all UDDI members to participate.
Remember that we are working hard to do the focus is to quickly provide a large, well-organized information center for web services descriptions of all business entities. For each of our members and every future user, the ultimate value is a lot of information, and our members work together to realize it.
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Will UDDI have relevant open source programs based on open standards?
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The answer is yes. The UDDI specification is free to all Internet users. Based on UDDI, the implementation of open source code for web services has begun.
Detailed information can be obtained on one of these results.
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Will participants in the mobile industry be involved in UDDI? So what about other industries?
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Early on, some companies in the mobile industry participated in the UDDI program, including Sun Microsoft, NTT, Nortel, IBM, and Microsoft, which are very active in the mobile technology and services fields. In addition, companies involved in and mobile computing are joining UDDI. By browsing this website regularly, you will find that the UDDI organization's members are increasing rapidly.
Scope and content
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Is UDDI available outside of .
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UDDI is a global norm. Every company in the world can and is encouraged to register at the UDDI Business Registration Center.
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How much information will be provided in the UDDI Business Registration Center? Will it be fully inclusive?
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After the UDDI commercial registration center is put on the market, any company or industry association around the world can become a registrant. In fact, all members of the UDDI development community are committed to registering their own companies and the services they provide at the UDDI Business Registration Center. As the number of participants in the program and adopters of norms grows, so does the associated benefits associated with discovery and integration. As a result of this process, discoveries of other commercial entities will become more worthy of attention.
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What kind of industry will profit from UDDI?
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All industries will make profits. This specification is not formulated for special industries. Industries with complex supply chains, they will profit from the simplicity of inheritance of dynamic systems. Industry sensitive to manufacturer relationships will benefit from tightly integrated access to customer/partner system and business information. Dynamic systems-based industries will be detrimental to changing the current situation where information comes from only a single source.
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Why promote UDDI to be an industry standard?
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When adopted and used widely, the UDDI project will become an industry standard. Many leaders in business and technology have committed to adopting the UDDI standard and implementing their services through the UDDI business registration center. Finally, industry leaders, electronic trading markets, suppliers, system integrators and software companies will all participate in the program and expand the UDDI specification to completely transform it into a standard entity.
Registration process
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When can I become a registrant?
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You can now register from the UDDI Business Registration Center for IBM and Microsoft that are currently available. Over time, other operating portal sites will be able to appear and provide online services. By accessing, you can get a list of existing operation portal sites.
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What does a registrant mean?
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On the smallest point of view, registration means that a business entity has published at least one of its own definitions. Ideally, all commercial entities will register description information for the web services they provide on the UDDI Business Registration Center. UDDI will assign an incremental, unique identifier to each service description and business registration and store them in the data market and search engines of the registry. Commercial applications can query this registry to discover other businesses’ web services, thereby creating a business relationship.
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Why register my company?
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The most fundamental reason why businesses need to register on the UDDI Business Registration Center is to let organizations that are not involved in business yet discover them. Registered companies will also enjoy a more convenient way to work with trading partners that have adopted UDDI specifications based on web services integration.
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In UDDI business registration, what is a paid registration for a business?
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The provider of each operation portal site can independently decide whether to charge a registration service. Ariba, IBM and Microsoft have decided not to charge any fees for registration. In the future, during the implementation of the UDDI specification, when a certain operation portal site needs to provide paid services, a third-party authorization certificate may be required.
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Is it a fee to enter the registration center?
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The operation portal for the UDDI Business Registration Center provided by Ariba, IBM and Microsoft is free.
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How to get a list of companies that have been registered on UDDI?
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Registering is very convenient unless you need to prepare some technical information that describes your web service. When you are ready, please visit and select the link to one of the registration centers. This will take you into a host-image, replicated distributed UDDI business registration center.
From there, fill in the appropriate business information in the provided registration form, such as company name, business contact, etc. After the basic information is submitted, continue to fill in the company's business service information, such as procurement, transportation, ordering, etc. If you support web services, you can accept electronic orders through the web, email, or even fax, as well as other acceptance methods you register in UDDI.
If you forget something, or your information changes, don't worry, you can always come back and update your data.
In addition, third-party agencies, such as trading markets, ISPs and ASPs, may register your company (with your permission) in the form of a web service and engage in trade. Also, check your suppliers to see if they support UDDI Business Registration Center.
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Where to register?
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Start by accessing. This site will provide a link, which will take you into the registration form at a node in a distributed UDDI business registration center with multiple operation portals.
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If UDDI has many nodes, must it be registered on each one?
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No, there is no need to register on every node of the UDDI Business Registration Center. All the necessary steps are to select a distributed registry node and then use it as your data management portal. All information you registered will be shared by all other distributed registration center nodes listed on. This means that if you publish information in the operation portal of a commercial registry node, the same information will be found under querying another commercial registry.
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Registered as a supplier in a certain trading market. Is it still necessary to register my company on UDDI?
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If you want your company to be noticed in an area outside of your chosen market, you should use the UDDI Business Registration Center, which is your way to achieve that. If your trading market provides you with electronic orders and other commercial documents, you will need to work with the provider of your trading market to correctly describe your services. The trading market you are currently involved in may be registering your company step by step through UDDI. Verify your trading market for more information.
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My company provides two completely different products and services to different industries. Do we need to register twice on UDDI and once for each product/industry?
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The following are recommended methods for managing registration information for large enterprises. Register a record of the highest level for each category or product, which allows your customers to quickly discover the right category or product. At the same time, detailed information is registered for each partition's product sub-item. Each partition is managed by a dedicated person. At the same time, there should be information pointing to these partition information on high-level records.
Another feasible method is to register and manage all information by one person, that is, register a separate company, and at the same time, the classification and product information are registered in the form of affiliated services of the company. If this method is used, the scale of registration information will be very large and very difficult to manage. But if you insist on managing this way, the UDDI Business Registration Center fully supports this need.
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My company is a provider of online trading markets and I already have 1,500 vendors registered in my trading markets. How do I get these vendors to register on UDDI?
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We recommend that you develop a unified technical description of this trading market and then provide it to your supplier to complete the collaborative work of both parties regarding the registration process. Many companies are involved in trading activities in multiple trading markets, so it is very important for suppliers to control and manage their business records in the UDDI Business Registration Center.
Another possible way to work together is to contact the vendor based on the business data you have collected and recommend registering them in the UDDI Business Registration Center. If they agree, you can register based on their interests, as long as you provide the password you need to manage their own data later.
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When my business changes, can I simply modify our company's information on the UDDI Business Registration Center?
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It's totally OK. All you have to do is to go back to the operation entry node of the UDDI Business Registration Center where you registered data, provide access authentication and login, and use easy-to-use online tools to update data. All of this can be done with just your browser. In addition, you can also choose to update your data using software tools that can directly interact with the UDDI registry using the XML/SOAP protocol.
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Who has the right and ability to change/edit a data entry?
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Only those who know the necessary information for data creator authentication can modify the data managed by the data creator. At the same time, operations can only be operated in the operation portal used when the data was created. Additionally, other policies will depend on the additional policies of the registry center node you use to register information.
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For registration, is it necessary for me to understand how to program in XML?
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unnecessary. Most people don't need to understand, or care at all. This is related to XML. Enterprises can register using registration forms at various operation portal sites.
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What information do I need to know when registering my company?
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If you are registering for your web service, you must have a technical perspective on the web service and the methods you use when registering in the UDDI Business Registration Center. These technical concepts are quite simple and direct, and include how to divide your information into multiple logical services, such as accepting purchase orders, invoices, freight notices, etc., to describe the physical location of the web service that your company actually operates.
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Who should be responsible for registering in the company?
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In a company, there may not be such a person who understands all the information about the company that needs to be involved in the registration process. Even if it may require collecting information from production management departments, IT departments, procurement departments and managers, it will never be a difficult task to discover information anyway. In addition, since collecting information is a long-term process, it is completely possible to continuously modify the registration information to make the company's registration information from incomplete to complete.
UDDI Business Registration Center Operation Portal
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What is UDDI Business Registration Center?
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A UDDI business registration center that implements the UDDI specification will be established and implemented as multiple peer nodes. "Operation Entry Node" are those companies that will run a commercial registry instance. The operation portal site will copy and synchronize the information registered on this site to other operation portal sites according to some basic principles to ensure the completeness of all node information. All operation portal sites support a common set of APIs to ensure the integrity and availability of the information provided.
search
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How to use UDDI as a search mechanism to find other commercial entities?
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Generally speaking, UDDI can target business entities that you already know their features, so you can discover the services they are providing and discover how to interact with them electronically.
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Where can I search for UDDI Business Registration Center? How should I use existing B2B and e-commerce applications to perform this operation?
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Search is one of the features supported by UDDI Business Registration Center through the web interface. If you are an application software designer, you can add a program interface to your software, so you can technically provide search capabilities for UDDI Business Registration Center for administrators who purchase or use your software.
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No matter where I search for UDDI Business Registration Center, is the information I get the same?
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Yes. All the nodes of the UDDI business registration center are listed on it, and their registration information is completely copied and shared with each other.
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Who is allowed to search for UDDI?
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This search feature is available to anyone around the world who is willing to take advantage of the benefits that the UDDI specification can bring.
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Do I have to register to search for UDDI?
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It is not necessary to register in the UDDI Business Registration Center to use the search capabilities it provides.
other
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Will my products and services be listed on UDDI?
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A company's product catalog and available services will not be listed in the UDDI Business Registration Center. Companies can search and discover each other through known identifiers (such as DUNS, Thomas Registry, etc.), standard taxonomy (such as NAICS, UN/SPSC), or named commercial services.
technology
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Have the specification been provided?
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Yes, the specification is available and published on it.
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What other standards does it work with?
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The UDDI standard utilizes W3C and Internet Engineering Task Organization (IETF) standards, such as Extended Markup Language (XML), HTTP and Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. In addition, in the cross-platform design characteristics, UDDI mainly adopts an earlier version of the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) specification that has been proposed to W3C. This is the message specification of the XML protocol (XML Protocol) on W3C sites that we are familiar with.
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Is the user interface the same at the operation entry node of each registration center?
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In most cases, the user interface (UI) of the operation entry node of each UDDI business registration center will be different. Publishing and performing searches to enable the widespread use of data are common goals of the operation entry nodes of the UDDI Business Registration Center. These services have been rigorously tested. In any case, every distributed registry node is authorized to allow them to innovate their interfaces at will and provide value-added services beyond the core requirements defined by the specification. Of course, such authorization is completely free.
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Where to do the search?
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Search can be performed on any UDDI business registration center node.
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When can I start searching?
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At any time, whether it is day or night.
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How will the 2nd and 3rd edition specifications of UDDI come into being?
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Companies participating in the UDDI program have two important goals: to achieve unity of opinions within the UDDI development community, and to complete and release two new specifications within 18 months. We have an open and planned step to reach consensus on each other, and companies that have joined the UDDI program also support the approach.