Aiming to boost business uses of Web services, OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, on Thursday announced that UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) specification Version 3.0.2 was approved as an OASIS standard.
Simply put, UDDI is a Web-based distributed directory that enables businesses to list themselves on the Internet and discover each other, similar to a traditional phone book's yellow and white pages. The UDDI registry is both a white pages business directory and a technical specifications library.
Touted at the Web Services on Wall Street conference in New York, UDDI 3.0.2 defines a standard method for publishing and discovering services and components in a SOA (service-oriented architecture). The standard provides a mechanism for creating a registry of Web services as well as a way to affiliate registries and define relationships among a number of different registries, OASIS officials said.
