UDDI is an acronym for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration – A platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet. UDDI is an open industry initiative (sponsored by OASIS) enabling businesses to discover each other and define how they interact over the Internet. A UDDI business registration consists of three components:
- White Pages - address, contact, and known identifiers;
- Yellow Pages - industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies; and
- Green Pages - technical information about services exposed by the business