Web Services Body UDDI.org Transitions Work to OASIS Standards Consortium; UDDI.org Delivers Version 3 Specification.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002 The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (standard, protocol) Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration - (UDDI) The service discovery protocol for Web Services through which companies can find one another to conduct business. This standard was unveiled by Ariba, IBM, Microsoft, and 33 other companies in September 2000. (UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. ) project, whose specification provides one of the building blocks for web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. applications and services, and OASIS, an industry standards body, have announced that OASIS will serve as the steward for the UDDI project and activities. OASIS will continue development of UDDI technical work. This transition delivers on the goals laid out in the UDDI project's original charter. OASIS, a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards, will manage the future development of the UDDI specification and related activities. Existing business registries will continue to be made available by registry operators. Under OASIS, the UDDI specification will continue to advance as a standard, and interested companies can continue to incorporate the specification into future business and software plans. UDDI also will benefit from additional expertise in shaping, developing and coordinating the fundamentals for open, standards-based business interoperability. Along with the transition, UDDI.org also announced today the release of the version 3 specification. The new specification will be the basis for future development under OASIS. "Version 3 provides the opportunity to make and mold UDDI registries for different purposes in different contexts, while maintaining a standard interoperable foundation," said Chris Kurt, General Program Manager, UDDI.org. "Additional features and enhancements such as those in the areas of security and internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation are now included per requirements of implementers and end users, including the entire UDDI community." The new version 3 specification offers a strong foundation for a diverse set of Web services architectures and delivers key enhancements, including: -- Increased security features -- Support for XML-based digital signatures, and XML-based policies are now managed in UDDI operations. -- Improved Web Services Description Language (WSDL) support -- Changes were made in the UDDI schema so WSDL-based web services can be found and run more easily. -- Multi-registry topologies -- Provides the ability to take web services registrations from a local registry and promote them to a private or public registry. -- New subscription API and core information model advances -- Allows UDDI users to receive proactive notifications on services and changes to the UDDI registry. For more information, see the UDDI Version 3.0 Features List at http://uddi.org/pubs/uddi_v3_features.htm "Delivering version 3 of the UDDI specification marks the culmination of two years worth of work by hundreds of companies," said Chris Kurt. "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for UDDI to take the next step toward standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting , and the transition to OASIS is happening as new features and enhancements appear that better meet the requirements of implementers and end users." "OASIS has a nine-year track record of developing standards for the Web and facilitating their adoption in the business community. We welcome members of the UDDI community to OASIS and look forward to advancing the specification as one of the key standards in the Web services arena," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of OASIS. About UDDI.Org The UDDI Community is comprised of more than 300 business and technology leaders working together to enable companies and applications to quickly, easily, and dynamically find, and use Web services. As a cornerstone of the emerging Web services architecture, UDDI will benefit businesses of all sizes by creating an open platform-independent specification. As a part of the UDDI project, a UDDI Business Registry has been established to allow businesses to publish and discover Web services. More information about the UDDI project can be obtained at www.uddi.org. About OASIS OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. conformance con·for·mance n. Conformity. Noun 1. conformance - correspondence in form or appearance conformity agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and , business transactions, electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. , topic maps Topic Maps is an ISO standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. The standard is formally known as ISO/IEC 13250:2003. and interoperability within and between marketplaces. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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