Are there any public UDDI registries available?

Question

I am currently trying to get a grasp of UDDI and would like to run some examples with the inquiry API, but I can’t find public registries that I can query with my SOAP messages.

IBM, Microsoft and SAP used to host public UDDI servers a couple of years ago but that was discontinued.

I know xmethods contains a list of publicly available web services, but I would like to concentrate only on discovery of web services with UDDI (and not really call the services afterwards).

Does anyone know of any public UDDI registries available?

Bullock

I was under the impression that UDDI had been deprecated? Anyone? – Gooey

If the thing is deprecated why has jUDDI implemented version 3 of the specs in June this year? – Bullock

Maybe they implemented version 3 of the UDDI spec because their name is jUDDI? – Czerny

"Maybe they implemented version 3 of the UDDI spec because their name is jUDDI?". I never thought of it that way, but you do make an interesting point. Nonetheless, the question still remains; are there any public UDDI registries available? – Bullock

Answer 1

You might be better installing jUDDI or something if this is just for learning and experimentation.

Although my feeling is that this particular standard has never really taken off and probably never will. There must be a reason that the public registries operated by large organisations have been shut down. Just a thought, before you commit too much time and effort to it.

Feldspar

Thanks for your answer. jUDDI is my second option. I would first like to use some concrete metadata not publish some of mine and then retrieve it (a real thing I think is more useful than a “Hello Word” UDDI thing). – Bullock

Yeah -- I see what you are saying. That would be more interesting. – Feldspar

Answer 2

Even if there are public UDDI registries, the question is whether anyone looks in those registries when using a web service. I think that the answer is "no".

Czerny

Ok, I understand that no one uses a UDDI registry to lookup web services to call (heck... I even stated in my question that I don’t want to call the service afterwards) but I do want to interact with a <b>real</b> UDDI registry. I can’t imagine that only IBM, Microsoft and SAP used to provide such registries and when they picked up their toys and left, the entire UDDI movement stopped. – Bullock

They were the UDDI movement. – Czerny

Answer 3

As you mentioned, Microsoft, IBM and SAP shut down their public UDDI back in 2007.

seekda (http://webservices.seekda.com/) is a search engine for public Web Services (although it is not UDDI based).

Gooey

Service is down. – Scopophilia

Answer 4

UDDI version 3 dates from 2002 (http://www.uddi.org/pubs/uddi-v3.00-published-20020719.htm) and the OASIS committee that defined it has been disbanded. So if a new version of jUDDI supports it, that doesn't mean there's any action on the specification.

Peckham

Answer 5

The jUDDI project maintains a public UDDI server for testing purposes. If you're just looking to learn, have fun.

http://uddi-jbossoverlord.rhcloud.com/

Of course, you can just download jUDDI and run it locally as well.

Castroprauxel