UDDI for a manufactured product brokering service

The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) initiative provides for distributed web-based information registries of web services. UDDI registries can be used to promote and discover distributed web services. This provides an alternate model to that offered by catalog vendors to date where each manufacturer has to provide separate information to each catalog within which they wish to list their products. This project describes an implementation of UDDI registries to test their ability to handle product manufacturers and suppliers in a brokering framework. It provides a uniform interface for manufacturers and suppliers to define their business offerings and their ability to provide further information to interested parties. The system also provides a product search interface for users to identify products matching a particular classification and discusses how this could be extended to include product parameters.