UDDI Scenarios
It would help all of us if someone produced a few example "Use Cases" of how UDDI would be used, once there are lots of web service implementations and the registry has some substantial numbers of registrations.

For instance, let's try a few hypothetical scenarios.

  1. Some SME commerce package (like Miva, say) gets as widely implemented as the Frontpage extensions. They expose the key ordering functions as web services. They build in function to register some standard e-commerce functions with a common set of Tmodels in UDDI. Discovery and auto- integration via UDDI becomes a real possibility. "Give me a list of suppliers in the steel tubing industry with Miva webservices"

  2. Acme Global, and BigCo plc want to integrate their respective CRM and SCM packages. Once the suits sign the deal, the techies go to UDDI and get the interface specs. Half a day's coding and the integration is done. No searching for the specs. No endless back and forth and consultancy fees. No 6 month project to modify the ERP system. No requirement to install EDI package X from software company Y.

    Acme have a habit of changing, moving and upgrading their interfaces every 6 months, so BigCo doesn't hard code the link, they check UDDI once a night to see if the TModel, WSDL files and so on have changed. When they do, their code auto-adjusts. This is like MS Windows based software that checks the registry to see if a *known* COM object is installed and then using what it finds to call it.

  3. "SOAP Trader on the desktop" is a shareware software package that runs on local machines. It lets you manage and search all your auction activity on all the auction sites worldwide from one place. It gets it's lists of interfaces to all these from UDDI. It interacts with the auction sites using SOAP.

  4. "GNUddi Publisher" is another local shareware package that reads the latest news, and manages your story and comment contributions to 5000 Slashdot-style and Blog portal sites. It uses the cloud of independent GNUddi registry servers to locate the sites and discover the post_story, post_comment, search_content, get_story interfaces.

Or maybe I've misunderstood ;-)

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