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UDDI Introduction:

The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) specifications define a registry service for Web services and for other electronic and non-electronic services. A UDDI registry service is a Web service that manages information about service providers, service implementations, and service metadata. Service providers can use UDDI to advertise the services they offer. Service consumers can use UDDI to discover services that suit their requirements and to obtain the service metadata needed to consume those services*.*

Features:

UDDI is a specification for a distributed registry of Web services.

UDDI is platform independent, open framework.

UDDI can communicate via SOAP, CORBA, Java RMI Protocol.

UDDI uses WSDL to describe interfaces to web services.

UDDI is seen with SOAP and WSDL as one of the three foundation standards of web services.

UDDI is an open industry initiative enabling businesses to discover each other and define how  they interact over the Internet

UDDI Implementations for java

There are two UDDI implementations for Java

1.       UDDI for java(UDDI4J) : UDDI4J was originally created by IBM. In January 2001, IBM       turned over the code to its own open source site. UDDI4J is a Java class library that provides     an  API to interact with a UDDI.

2.       jUDDI:  jUDDI is an open source Java implementation of a UDDI registry and a toolkit for accessing UDDI services