Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is a platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet. UDDI is an open industry initiative, sponsored by OASIS, enabling businesses to publish service listings and discover each other and define how the services or software applications interact over the Internet. A UDDI business registration consists of three components:
White Pages — address, contact, and known identifiers;
Yellow Pages — industrial categorizations based on standard taxonomies;
Green Pages — technical information about services exposed by the business.