Publishing of Interoperable Services and Processes in UDDI

— This paper presents a requirements analysis and a solution approach to representing workflow processes conforming to the Wf-XML/ASAP standard proposal in a UDDI registry. Wf-XML/ASAP is introduced as a representation of business processes focusing on loosely coupled subprocesses which involve executable and human activities. The UDDI standard as part of the web services protocol stack is designed to hold service relevant information from overall business entities down to technical fingerprints of mostly simple web services. We present a solution approach that allows to use UDDI for registering and discovering service endpoints of Wf-XML/ASAP processes involving complex and dynamic interactions of executable and human activities. We conclude that while such a representation is possible, some of UDDI’s structures and relationships need to be extended in order to get an appropriate service registry in interoperable services collaborative infrastructures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EDOC
• Authors: Marcus Spies, Harald Schöning, Keith Swenson
• Keywords: EDOC 2007, Operating System, Solution Approach, UDDI, UDDI Registry