!!! Overview[1]
[{$pagename}] ([UDDI]) is an [XML]-based [Discovery Mechanism] standard for describing, publishing, and finding web services.

* [{$pagename}] is an [OASIS] specification for a distributed registry of web services.
* [{$pagename}] is a platform-independent, open [framework].
* [{$pagename}] can communicate via [SOAP], [CORBA], Java [RMI] [Protocol].
* [{$pagename}] uses [Web Service Definition Language] ([WSDL]) to describe interfaces to web services.
* [{$pagename}] is seen with SOAP and WSDL as one of the three foundation standards of web services.
* [{$pagename}] is an open industry initiative, enabling businesses to discover each other and define how they interact over the [Internet].

!! [{$pagename}] has two sections:
* A registry of all web service's [metadata], including a pointer to the [WSDL] description of a service.
* A set of [WSDL] port type definitions for manipulating and searching that registry.

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* [#1] - [UDDI - Overview|https://www.tutorialspoint.com/uddi/uddi_overview.htm|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-01-20-