When UDDI first appeared it was thought that everyone would be looking up services on the internet to consume. For various reasons this has never happened. In fact today it is more likely that a UDDI registry will be used for design time discovery and not the runtime discovery that was originally envisaged. The design time discovery is certainly the area that I have been looking at in more detail and within the internal corporate, not a public facing registry.

Here is an article that covers the same area regarding Systinet.

Over the past few months I have been involved in looking into the SOA a lot and researching different processes, methods, products etc. One of the most important aspects to come out of this work has been the importance of Governance.

I’ve broken this down into a couple main areas,
- Registry
- Policy Management

Registry
This refers to the UDDI registry where it is possible to find the list of available services. It’s all very going off and creating a bunch of services but if you can’t fund them the re-use becomes zero!! There are different ways of doing this and some places will use a simple spreadsheet to record what services are available, while others will utilise specific products.