UDDI Overview: UDDI Overview 9/6/2000 Copyright © 2000-2002 by Accenture, Ariba, Inc., Commerce One, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Company, i2 Technologies, Inc., Intel Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and VeriSign, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


How did this come about?: How did this come about? Naturally 'evolved' Ariba and IBM collaboration around B2B IBM and Microsoft collaboration around XML and SOAP Microsoft and Ariba collaboration around BizTalk and cXML 6 months, ~50 meetings


What is UDDI?: What is UDDI? A project to speed interoperability and adoption for web services Standards-based specifications for service description and discovery Shared operation of a business registry on the web Partnership among industry and business leaders Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration


What Problems Do We Solve?: What Problems Do We Solve?


Our Vision and Process: Our Vision and Process


UDDI v1 Implementation: UDDI v1 Implementation


How UDDI v1 Works: How UDDI v1 Works UDDI Business Registry Segrvice Type Reistrations SW companies, standards bodies, and programmers populate the registry with descriptions of different types of services 1.


Registry Data: Registry Data Businesses register public information about themselves Standards bodies, Programmers, Businesses register information about their Service Types White Pages Yellow Pages Green Pages Service Type Registrations


White Pages: White Pages Business Name Text Description list of multi-language text strings Contact info names, phone numbers, fax numbers, web sites… Known Identifiers list of identifiers that a business may be known by - DUNS, Thomas, other


Yellow Pages: Yellow Pages Business categories 3 standard taxonomies in V1 Industry: NAICS (Industry codes - US Govt.) Product/Services: UN/SPSC (ECMA) Location: Geographical taxonomy Implemented as name-value pairs to allow any valid taxonomy identifier to be attached to the business white page


Green Pages: Green Pages New set of information businesses use to describe how to 'do e-commerce' with them Nested model Business processes Service descriptions Binding information Programming/platform/implementation agnostic Services can also be categorized


Service Type Registration: Service Type Registration Pointer to the namespace where service type is described What programmers read to understand how to use the service Identifier for who published the service Identifier for the service type registration called a tModelKey Used as a signature by web sites that implement those services


Business Registration: businessEntity businessKey name URL description contacts businessServices identifierBag categoryBag businessService Key Name Description BindingTemplates businessService serviceKey tModelKey Name Description BindingTemplates Business Registration XML document Created by end-user company (or on their behalf) Can have multiple service listings Can have multiple taxonomy listings


Example of a Registration: Example of a Registration


UDDI at Work: UDDI at Work Harbour Metals creates online website with local ASP 1. SydneyNet.com 2. ASP registers Harbour Metals with UBR UDDI Registry


Registry Operation: IBM Ariba Microsoft other other Registry Operation Peer nodes (websites) Companies register with any node Registrations replicated on a daily basis Complete set of 'registered' records available at all nodes Common set of SOAP APIs supported by all nodes Compliance enforced by business contract UDDI.org queries


Why a DNS-like Model?: Why a DNS-like Model? Enforces cross-platform compatibility across competitor platforms Demonstration of trust and openness Avoids tacit endorsement of any one vendor’s platform May migrate to a third party


UDDI and SOAP: UDDI and SOAP User UDDI SOAP Request UDDI SOAP Response UDDI Registry Node HTTP Server SOAP Processor UDDI Registry Service B2B Directory Create, View, Update, and Delete registrations Implementation- neutral


Registry APIs (SOAP Messages): Registry APIs (SOAP Messages) Inquiry API Find things find_business find_service find_binding find_tModel Get Details about things get_businessDetail get_serviceDetail get_bindingDetail get_tModelDetail Publishers API Save things save_business save_service save_binding save_tModel Delete things delete_business delete_service delete_binding delete_tModel security… get_authToken discard_authToken


UDDI Roadmap: UDDI Roadmap V1 V2 V3 Business Units 3 Taxonomies Descriptions of Services Corporations More Taxonomies Layered Services Associations Custom Taxonomies Workflow Sept 2000 March 2001 December 2001 Ongoing Standards Body


Summary: Summary Significant effort that unites existing standards with a shared implementation Open process with clear roadmap to a standards body Industry momentum