Glossary

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Administrator An individual who can query, publish, coordinate, and administer UDDI Services. In addition to Coordinator user rights for the Web-based user interface, an Administrator can administer service options, manage security settings, perform backups, and carry out other administrative tasks at the system level by using the UDDI Services Web user interface, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in and command line tools. By default, the Administrator group uses the local computer group BUILTIN\Administrators.

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B
Binding The point where a specific implementation of a service can be accessed, such as the URL where an interface can be found. Bindings may also include one or more instance info structures.

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C
Categorization Scheme A collection of categories and subcategories used to describe and locate providers, services, and tModels. A categorization scheme may contain public classifications, such as the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It may also contain company-defined categorizations. For example, useful categorization schemes might be constructed around geographical locations, industry segments, or a company's organizational structure. Categorization provides a consistent means by which users can search for providers and services or locate interfaces of a particular type, location, or other attribute.
Contact A human or computer resource that can be contacted for information about a provider or the XML Web services it offers. A provider may have as many contacts as is necessary to identify each of its available contact points.
Coordinator An individual who can query, publish, and configure data in the UDDI Services Web-based user interface. In addition to Publisher user rights, a Coordinator can view and modify any data stored in UDDI Services, change entity ownerships, import categorization schemes, and generate and view statistical reports. By default, the Coordinator group uses the local computer group BUILTIN\Administrators.

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Discovery URL An HTTP-accessible resource that typically responds to an HTTP-GET request with technical information describing a provider. When a provider is created, UDDI Services automatically creates a discovery URL pointing to that provider's businessEntity within that installation of UDDI Services.

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Identifier An organization-wide identification scheme used to logically group providers and tModels by a common form of identification, such as a cost code or D-U-N-S® Number. Identifiers are optional descriptions and are intended to enhance the discovery of providers and tModels in search operations.
Instance Info A reference to a tModel that contains relevant technical information about a binding, such as an interface specification document or Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.
Instance Parameters The settings or parameters that are supported by an instance of a binding. An instance parameter may be either a list of settings and parameters or the URL of a file that contains a list of supported settings and parameters.
Interface The address or location where a service or application can be invoked. For example, a weather report Web service might publish a single interface: http://www.mycompany.com/weather.asmx

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Overview Document URL An address of an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)-accessible resource that hosts data or information you would like to associate with an entity. For example, a tModel overview document might provide the URL to an interface definition or Web Service Description Language (WSDL) file that provides technical information that is required to invoke a service through an interface. For an instance info, an overview document might provide additional technical information that is only applicable to a specific implementation of an interface.

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Provider A party—any business, or physical or conceptual group—that offers one or more XML Web services. For example, a business, business unit, organization, organizational department, person, computer, or an application can be a provider in UDDI Services. In the UDDI Services data structure, a provider represents the "parent" entity under which all contact, service, and interface information is stored and organized.
Publisher An individual who can query and publish in UDDI Services. A Publisher can add entities to UDDI Services or modify any of the entities that they own. By default, the Publisher group uses the local computer group BUILTIN\Administrators.

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Relationships The identity, parent-child or peer-peer relationships between providers. Relationships are useful, for example, when describing an organizational structure or advertising business partnerships.

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Service An entity in UDDI Services that describes and provides access to a function you would like to share with other UDDI Services users. Services can perform any function across a network, from simple requests to complicated business processes. A stock ticker feed and an online procurement system are each examples of functions that can be published as a service. Services may have one or more bindings.
Site A complete installation of all UDDI Services components, including at least one Web server component connected to a database component.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) A World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. SOAP is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it; a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined data types; and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.

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tModel tModels are typically used to provide technical information about an interface, such as a Web Service Description Language (WSDL) file, that describes the conventions that are supported by an interface. tModels are also used to represent an organized unit of descriptive data, such as an identification or categorization scheme. How tModels are used in your implementation may vary, depending upon your organization's Web services publishing data model.

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Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) An industry specification for publishing and locating information about Web services. It provides a standards-based way to store and retrieve information about services, service providers, binding information, and technical interface definitions, all classified using a set of standard or custom classification schemes.
User An individual who can only query UDDI Services for Web service information. Any partner or organization with whom you would like to share your Web services data must be part of, at minimum, the User group. By default, the User group uses the local computer group BUILTIN\Users.

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Web Service A unit of application logic that provides data and services to other applications that can be invoked using standard Internet transport protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), or File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Web services can perform functions ranging from simple requests to complicated business processes..
WSDL (Web Service Description Language) An Extensible Markup Language (XML) grammar that developers and development tools use to represent the capabilities of an XML Web service.

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XML (Extensible Markup Language) A universal format for structured documents and data on the Web. XML is an industry-standard protocol administered by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
XML Web Service A unit of application logic that provides data and services to other applications that can be invoked over standard Internet transport protocols. Invocations of XML (Extensible Markup Language) Web services are formatted in XML and often use protocols such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transport.