Rob Breeds

UDDI allows providers to publish information about their services in a common registry. A key part of this process is to describe services in an accurate and consistent way so potential users can easily find them using UDDI inquiry functions. Classifying services with user-defined taxonomies is an effective way to improve search results. Part 1 of this series, "Create and Test a User-Defined Taxonomy in WebSphere Studio" [WJ, Vol. 3, issue 1], described how you can define and test taxonomies for UDDI in IBM WebSphere Studio's Unit Test environment. This article explains how to deploy and use user-defined taxonomies with WebSphere UDDI Registry in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Edition (version 5.0.2 and above). To try the examples you must have IBM WebSp... (more)

UDDI & User-Defined Taxonomies - Part I: Create and test a user-defined taxonomy in WebSphere Studio

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) plays the pivotal role of matchmaking between service provider and service requester. Sophisticated publish and inquiry capabilities allow providers to describe their offerings, and seekers to locate them. The quality and depth of a service description is critical to how easily that service can be found by interested parties. Likew... (more)