UDDI and Web Services

by Paul Harmon

Ever since XML was introduced, people have been talking about the possibility that it could be used as a kind of Internet middleware. Skeptics have pointed out that XML is a document format. It isn't middleware -- it lacks any of the services traditionally associated with middleware, including the ability to locate distributed components, transactions, security, and so forth. Nor is it a component, since it lacks an interface definition language.

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UDDI and Web Services 11 October 2000