Chapter 10. Service Advertising and Discovery with UDDI

The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specifications represent a step beyond simply describing web services. They outline methods by which services can take the initiative to seek out and identify other services with which they want to interact. Relationships ranging from the simply functional to the complete business lifecycle can be established and implemented.

This chapter introduces the basic concepts behind UDDI. The topic is complex enough to warrant its own book, so we encourage you to take the information presented here and use it as a basis for further research.