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The
standards...(Contd)
UDDI
- The UDDI (Universal
Description, Discovery,
and Integration) Project is
an 18 month effort to define a set of specifications that will make
it easier for businesses to accelerate the use of B2B and commerce
over the Internet.The UDDI Project is based on existing Internet
standards and it is platform independent and implementation neutral.
Over 100 companies -- including business leaders like Merrill
Lynch, technology leaders like IBM,
Microsoft, and Sun
Microsystems and innovative B2B companies like Ariba,
CommerceOne, and VerticalNet
-- have all signed on to support UDDI. These companies have come
together because they agree that no individual technology vendor
can control how standards for B2B will evolve. Industry analysts
like the Gartner Group, Forrester Research, and Seybold are cautiously
optimistic that UDDI will become the core initiative for accelerating
B2B adoption.
UDDI is a yellow pages-type directory of all businesses that expose
Web services. This directory is called Universal Description, Discovery,
and Integration or UDDI. If you are a business, you need to start
thinking about how your company is going to get involved in the
world of Web Services. IT architects should read through the UDDI
specifications and start thinking about which Web Services your
company will define and publish in the UDDI Business Registry.
Further
Readings:
1. http://uddi.microsoft.com
2.
https://www-3.ibm.com/services/uddi/protect/registry.html
3. http://uddi.hp.com
4. Microsoft
UDDI SDK For .NET framework, Windows
5. SOAP
UDDI SOAP
UDDI is a reference implementation of the UDDI specification.
6. uddicentral.com -
UDDI Central gives you the best set of Internet resources on the
exciting new UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
Standard that may revolutionize e-commerce and business-to-business
web strategies.
UDDI
is accepted and supported by IBM, Microsoft, Intel, SAP ,SUN and
Ariba. The version 3.0 of UDDI was released in 2001.
SOAP
- SOAP is a lightweight and
simple XML-based object invocation protocol that is designed to
exchange structured and typed information on the Web.
It is a protocol specification for invoking methods on servers,
services, components and objects. SOAP, or Simple
Object Access Protocol
was originally developed for distributed applications to communicate
over HTTP and through corporate firewalls. SOAP defines the use
of XML and HTTP to access services, objects and servers in a platform-independent
manner.
Further
Readings:
1.
SOAP Microsoft
2. www.develop.com/soap/
3. SoapWare.Org - The leading
directory for SOAP 1.1 developers.
4. SOAP digest
online
5. SOAP News
online
SOAP
is accepted and supported by IBM, Microsoft, Intel, SUN, Netscape,
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