UDDI is an acronym for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration – A platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet. UDDI is an open industry initiative (sponsored by OASIS) enabling businesses to discover each other and define how they interact over the Internet. A UDDI business registration consists of three components:

• White Pages - address, contact, and known identifiers;
• Yellow Pages - industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies; and
• Green Pages - technical information about services exposed by the business

UDDI is a one of the core Web Services standards. It is designed to be interrogated by SOAP messages and to provide access to WSDL documents describing the protocol bindings and message formats required to interact with the web services listed in its directory.

See also

• List of Internet topics
• Web Service
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Web services description language (WSDL)
• XML
  • Java API for XML Registries
• WS-I Basic Profile
• Web Services Discovery
• Universal Standard Products and Services Classification (UNSPSC)

External links

• UDDI specifications