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Initially, UDDI was both an organization as well
as a specification. The UDDI organization was initially championed
by IBM, Ariba and Microsoft, but in June of 2002, the group transferred
it's control to OASIS.
The UDDI specification identifies a mechanism
for providing a service repository and means for populating, retrieving
and replicating the information within the repository. UDDI attempts
to leverage Internet and web service
standards when possible. It provides a means to describe trading
partners and the services they provide. UDDI is often viewed as
the, "yellow-pages" of web services.
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The most common version of UDDI is currenty UDDI
2.0, which is part of the WS-Basic
Profile. It superceded UDDI 1.0
and it is anticipated that UDDI 3.0
will be the successor to 2.0.
UDDI also identifies the concept of a public
registry as well as private registries. The UDDI public registry
is called UBR.
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