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Importing artifacts from a Universal Description Discovery and Integration registry
Artifacts such as interfaces and business objects can be imported from a Universal Description Discovery and Integration registry.
Universal Description Discovery and Integration (
UDDI) is an open
industry registry for businesses. This registry is a way for any business to publish services on the Internet and also find services that are needed by the business. Services in a UDDI registry conform to the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) with respect to bindings
and message formats. UDDI is widely used by corporations as a standard
way of reusing software though a common open-standard registry with services that comply to industry standards like WSDL and Web Services
Interoperability (WS-I).
Many articles and books have been written on UDDI as it has a close
association with service-oriented architecture. For more details, see Enhance UDDI to manage web services and Understanding WSDL in a UDDI registry.
In this section, you are shown how to set up your preferences to connect to a specific UDDI and then how to use the external service discovery wizard to discover and import artifacts from the UDDI.
- Set up preferences to connect to a Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry
Before connecting to a registry, configure some preferences that specify where the registry is located. - Discovering artifacts in a Universal Description Discovery and Integration registry
The external services wizard finds the artifacts at a registry, lets you select which artifacts you want, and then imports the selection you have made.