The repository contains the assets, metadata elements, and unstructured supporting
documents.
The Web service registry is based on the UDDI model and basically serves to categorize
information about businesses and the services that they offer, and it associates those services
with technical specifications of the Web service. These technical specifications are usually
defined using Web Services Description Language (WSDL). WSDL describes what a Web
service does, how it communicates, and where it lives. A Web service consumer queries
the UDDI registry to find the WSDL descriptions to determine how to use the Web service.
A UDDI registry is itself a Web service. The UDDI specification defines an API based on
simple object access protocol (SOAP) messages, with a WSDL description of the registry
service. Most UDDI registries also provide a browser-based human interface. A UDDI
registry consists of the following data structure types: Business Entity (businessentity),
Business Service (businessService), Binding Template (bindingTemplate), and T-Model
(tModel). Descriptions of specifications for Web Services or taxonomies that form the basis
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