{"id":205,"date":"2007-02-08T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-02-08T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T19:21:49","slug":"soa-governance-needs-drive-renewed-interest-in-uddi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/soa-governance-needs-drive-renewed-interest-in-uddi\/","title":{"rendered":"SOA: Governance needs drive renewed interest in UDDI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI<\/a>) has been a long-ignored component of the SOA framework.\u00a0 It<\/a> is an open industry initiative that\u00a0has been approved as an\u00a0OASIS<\/a> standard to\u00a0allow the registration\u00a0and discovery\u00a0of\u00a0web services.\u00a0 The current specification<\/a> is at version 3.<\/p>\n

UDDI spans the SOA stack as shown in this diagram<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"SOA<\/p>\n

As a Web Services registry, UDDI provides metadata about and describtions of\u00a0interfaces for interacting with Web Services.\u00a0 The metadata could include, for example,\u00a0a description of the business logic encapsulated in the service, the name of the publisher, version information, and a technical description about the use of the API.<\/p>\n

The first generation of SOA implementations have tended to be fairly self contained.\u00a0 SOA implementors have generally been well aware of which services exist in their organization and knew how to get documentation for how to access those services.\u00a0 There weren’t enough services to warrant the need for a directory.<\/p>\n

But as the number of services developed internally and introduced\u00a0from vendor\u00a0applications increase, governance become more important.\u00a0 Governance provides better understanding and controls to helping organizations bring order to their SOA environments.<\/p>\n

Anne Thomas Manes<\/a> of Burton Group<\/a> \u00a0in an interview<\/a> (and here<\/a>) comments that UDDI is seeing more traction.\u00a0 She notes that there are competing\u00a0technologies\u00a0to UDDI, like IBM’s WebSphere Registry and Repository<\/a>\u00a0and ebXML<\/a>.\u00a0 But IBM’s registry product isn’t compatible with UDDI, isolating\u00a0them from interoperability with most of the market which is using UDDI.\u00a0 As an alternative to UDDI, ebXML has had a much lower profile, but it has been garnering some success<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among UDDI vendors, HP is dominant from its acquisition of Mercury\/Systinet<\/a>.\u00a0 Oracle and Tibco are both using Systinet.\u00a0 The next runner up is webMethods which is competing with technology that they acquired from Infravio<\/a>.\u00a0 At this time, neither Microsoft nor SAP have SOA governance products, but that is likely to change.<\/p>\n

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Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) has been a long-ignored component of the SOA framework.\u00a0 It is an open industry initiative that\u00a0has been approved as an\u00a0OASIS standard to\u00a0allow the registration\u00a0and discovery\u00a0of\u00a0web services.\u00a0 The current specification is at version 3. UDDI…<\/span><\/p>\n

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