uddi

I have a bunch of web services implemented in Spring-WS 1.5.9. We use Maven to do our builds, our services run on OC4J that have a UDDI provider. What we want to do is to start using UDDi internally to register our web services to allow other groups in the business to find and use them. The problem is that I've not been able to find how to actually put this all together. How do I get the services to register them selves when they are deployed to the app server. Spring doesn't seem to have any support or annotations. There doesn't appear to be a maven plugin. I've got all the pieces but how do

I'm just reading up on SOA and the service registry / UDDI get mentioned regularly. It sounds nice but how is used in reality? Is the registry meant to decouple a logical service from its' physical implementation (port, url etc)? Is the registry meant to be browsed by a human looking for an interesting service to play with? Would it be 'wrong' to hard-wire an application to the services it uses? I find it to be more theoretically useful than practically useful. It is infrequently implemented and infrequently used. In reality, DNS provides a sufficient abstraction tool for the location of

I know the distinction between UDDI and Ws-Discovery (well know location to search a service vs broadcast). But my question is : what is the simplest way to discover a webservice in WCF ? By simplest I mean what is already implemented in WCF and can be used now ? I've not seen any built-in implementation in WCF for UDDI or Ws-Discovery. Do you have any link, or experience to share about these two protocols in WCF ? UPDATE Now I'm thinking about three solutions, waiting for WS-discovery on .NET 4.0, or maybe creating my own discovery binding with the Peer to Peer binding provided by WCF. This

I am trying to find some public UDDI registries to interact with, for learning purposes. But it seems there are none available. I popped the following question on SO to see if someone knows about any public registry still hosted, but got no answers. The IBM, Microsoft and SAP public registries were a test of the UDDI technology. I quote from here : The primary goal of the UBR was to prove the interoperability and robustness of the UDDI specifications through a public implementation. This goal was met and far exceeded. They now continue to support the UDDI specifications in their products (so,