Universal description, discovery, and integration
- registry system
- business entities, business services, specifications, service
types
- standard taxonomies to describe businesses, services,
and service types (?!)
- “The UDDI Business Registry is intended to serve as a
global, all-inclusive listing of businesses and their services. The
UDDI Business Registry does not contain detailed specifications about
business services. It points to other sources that contain the service
specifications.”
- private registries also possible
UDDI began as ad hoc consortium; now housed at OASIS.
