Steve Loughran wrote:
I'm personally really puzzled by the logic behind UDDI. As far as I can see there's a huge gap between the reality of what can be done using UDDI and the marketing concept behind it (which seems to be that you can have your programs automatically look up and connect to services).As an aside, does *anyone* use UDDI?-steve
Where UDDI starts to make sense to me is when you have standardized interfaces to particular types of services - then the dynamic lookup and use is actually possible. I don't know of any types of services that are actually standardized in this manner, though. Perhaps ebXML is the missing piece of the puzzle here. Without interface standardization, simple web-page directories of services (such as XMethods and the like) seem far more useful than UDDI.
This is not knocking UDDI - I think it's a great tool, I just don't see any real use for it. :-) I'd love to be corrected on this if I'm overlooking something.
- Dennis
Dennis M. Sosnoski
Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support
http://www.sosnoski.com
