Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

This document describes the Web services and behaviors of all instances of a UDDI registry. Normative material is provided in the numbered chapters of the document and in the XML schemas which accompany this document. Supplementary non-normative commentary, explanations, and guidance may be found in the lettered appendices. In particular, first-time readers of this specification may find Appendix L Glossary of Terms useful. This specification contains examples of XML data and URIs used in interacting with UDDI. To illustrate them as completely as possible, the examples include the names of individuals, companies, brands, and products. All of these names are fictitious and any similarity to the names and addresses used by an actual business enterprise is entirely coincidental. The primary audiences for this document are: · Programmers who want to write software that will directly interact with a UDDI registry. · Programmers who want to implement a UDDI node · Programmers who want to implement any of the Web services UDDI Nodes invoke All implementations of the UDDI specification must provide support for the required Web services described here as well as the behaviors defined.