Re: What is this?

From: Peter O'Brien <peter_at_coolderry.com>
Date: Wed 25 Jul 2001 10:40:00 -0500

HAVAH HOPE <havah_at_aperfectdealer.com> WROTE:

> I had never heard of UDDI so I wrote my technical
> people. They had never heard of it either. Obviously,
> not as "sweeping" as their publicist seems to thing
> it is. Anyway, does anyone have any information on
> this? Is it worth doing?

UDDI, what is it?
Universal Discovery and Description Integration. A new
directory for enabling web services applications.
 http://www.uddi.org

UDDI is basically 3 different searchable views on services.
UDDI currently implements searches against these views
using an API that is currently implemented using
SOAP/HTTP.

  a.. White Pages. Here, services can be found using
  their name. This is like finding your favorite plumber
  in the phone book. You know the plumbers name so you
  look him/her up using their name.

  b.. Yellow Pages. Here we just know that we need a
  plumber. So, we get the yellow pages and get a list
  of plumbers in the plumber section.

  c.. Green Pages. But, we don't know whether we're going
  to like them and be able to work with them; maybe
  they're a Spanish speaking company and we speak French.
  The Green Pages solve this problem. The green pages let
  us find services that speak our language. The interface
  that a service supports is the search key with the green
  pages. We can find the services that support the French
  plumber interface. We can also search using multiple
  interfaces. For example, find me the services that
  support the French plumber interface AND the VISA
  payment interface.

UDDI, Is it worth doing?
For now no. But eventually, when search engines and more
importantly search agents get more sophisticated, yes.
This is quite a low level infrastructural technology,
currently JNDI is perhaps the most pervasive in the
enterprise technology arena, and most people haven't heard
of that either. Give it another year, and you'll find it
used in some software. For example, some one sends you an
email with a .xyz attachment and your email client uses
a UDDI directory to find the software that can open it.
And you don't even need to know about it.

Hope this helps,

Peter
Founder and CEO
Coolderry Technology



Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 10:40:00 CDT