[DotGNU]UDDI/WDSL (was Re: WOS)

[Norbert Bollow]

> > > I've been reading about UDDI (www.uddi.org),
> >
> > Hm... it says on their website "UDDI is currently being guided
> > by a group of industry leaders that are spearheading the early
> > creation and design efforts."  Given that Microsoft is one of
> > those "industry leaders" that are "guiding" UDDI, what makes you
> > think that UDDI would play fair with us?
> 
> There are implementations of UDDI, one is jUDDI (www.juddi.org). Probably 
> there are more, but I haven't looked. Personally I can't see why this 
> specification wouldn't stay open. It's possible that MS uses UDDI for .Net, 
> but I don't think MS will try anything with UDDI. The standard
> is too big and important for that. There are over 200
> companies in the UDDI community. But of course, those are just
> my personal believes...

Ok... jUDDI has a BSD-style license, which is GPL-compatible.
So in a worst-case scenario, it would be resonably easy for
DotGNU to fork jUDDI.  Therefore I think you're right, there
seems to be no reason why DotGNU couldn't endorse UDDI.

> http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
> [..]
> UDDI/WDSL is a lookup service, like Jini. Businesses and services registers 
> themselves and then you can search for the service you want and use it, like 
> the Yellow Pages I guess. This just solves a fraction of what DotGNU, but I 
> thought it looked nice. Are there any other plans for lookup services?

I believe Gary and Barry have been talking about some
ideas... but why should we do our own thing when it's so much
easier to use something that exists already?

Greetings, Norbert.

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