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Services Registry is a UDDI-based registry that holds information about enterprise services and references to their metadata. At the core of the Services Registry is an open standard UDDI v3.0 conformant registry. Wherever Services Registry is present in a landscape, it needs a UDDI server.

Users can publish content to the UDDI server at design time, at deployment time and at configuration time. The UDDI publication is achieved in accordance with established Web service standards.

More information: Configuring the UDDI Server

UDDI Server Components

  • SOAP API

    UDDI servers can be either operated manually through the browser or through client programs using SOAP APIs.

    To access the data of a UDDI registry, the client software uses SOAP calls through an HTTP connection. In accordance with the UDDI specification, the UDDI server works as a Web service and provides an inquiry API and a publishing API. The calls for applications that search through the business registry form the inquiry API. This includes calls such as find_business and find_service .

    More information: APIs

  • UDDI Server Logic

    The UDDI server logic implements the search and publication functions defined in the UDDI standard. This logic takes care to read data from the database when users perform a search using a SOAP API or the Web user interface. Likewise, there are utilities that take care of publishing data and writing it to the database.

    More information: UDDI Registry Entities

  • UDDI Server Web User Interface

    In addition to Services Registry, SAP provides a Web user interface for the SAP UDDI server. This browser-based UDDI client allows you to search for business entities, business services, binding templates, and tModels, and publish data on the UDDI server. You can call the UDDI client with http://<host>:<port>/sr/uddi .

    More information: Using the UDDI Server