About UDDI Registries

UDDI registries provide a standards-based way of locating web services either by name, or by industry category. UDDI registries can be public, for example the public UDDI registries that are
automatically available from JDeveloper, or private, such as a UDDI registry used within an organization.

JDeveloper's Find Web Service wizard browses UDDI registries to find web services by either name or category.

A UDDI registry contains four data structure types that group information about web services:

businessEntity - the top-level data structure that contains information about the business providing the web service. When you find a web service, the business is added to the UDDI browser in the Connections Navigator.
businessService - contains descriptive information for a family of services, including the name and brief description, and category information.
bindingTemplate - contains information about a web service entry point and references to interface specification.
tModel - represents the technical specification of the web service. When the Find Web Services wizard finds a web service, it also displays other web services that are compatible with the same tModel.

Searching for a Web Service by Name

When you search by name, you can enter all or part of a name and you can use wildcards. The results are tModels where the name of the tModel matches the search criteria. When a number of web services have the same tModel, they are listed in the wizard so that you can choose the one that best fits your requirements.

Searching for a Web Service by Category

You can search for web services based on one or more of the following categories:

UDDI Types - allows you to search by UDDI type.
NAICS - allows you to specify the type of industry.
ISO 3166 - allows you to search by location.
UNSPSC - allows you to search by type of service.

Currently, there are not many web services registered in public UDDI registries with category information, and this is likely to provide fewer results than searching by name.