Finding web services with UDDI

As a consumer of web services, you want to know what web services are available. As a publisher of web services, you want others to be able to find information about your web services. Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) provides a way for web service clients to dynamically locate web services that provide specific capabilities. You use a UDDI query to find service providers. A UDDI response contains information, such as business contact information, business category, and technical details, about how to invoke a web service.

Although ColdFusion does not directly support UDDI, you can manually register or find a web service using a public UDDI registry, such as the IBM UDDI Business Registry at https://www-3.ibm.com/services/uddi/protect/registry.html.

You can find additional information about UDDI at www.uddi.org/about.htm.