A platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses and integrating business services using the Internet, as well as an operational registry that is available today. [go to site

The focus of Universal Description Discovery & Integration (UDDI) is the definition of a set of services supporting the description and discovery of (1) businesses, organizations, and other Web services providers, (2) the Web services they make available, and (3) the technical interfaces which may be used to access those services. Based on a common set of industry standards, including HTTP, XML, XML Schema, and SOAP, UDDI provides an interoperable, foundational infrastructure for a Web services-based software environment for both publicly available services and services only exposed internally within an organization.

(UDDI) b . A business registry and repository for storing information about businesses and the electronic services they offer. UDDI creates a standard interoperable platform that enables companies and applications to quickly, easily and dynamically find and use Web Services over the internet. See: Electronic Business with XML (ebXML), Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), Web Services Links: UDDI Home Page

A Web protocol, based on the WSDL language, that allows one Web system to locate others and determine what format messages to that system must take.

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