UDDI Browser Release Notes
Version: 0.2 (beta)

This document contains information that should help you use this application more effectively. See the User Guide for additional information.

Preface

The UDDI Browser is an open-source project that provides a friendly user interface allowing users to browse and manipulate content in UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) registries.  It is written in Java using the Swing libraries.  Currently the browser only supports version 2.0 UDDI registries.  Details on UDDI can be found on the OASIS web site at http://uddi.org/ .  More information about this project, contributing and access to the latest downloads can be found on the UDDI Browser web site at http://uddibrowser.org/ .

Directory Structure

After extracting the contents of your distribution, you will find the UDDI Browser and its dependent JAR files in the following directories:

         ub-0.2
             bin            <-- contains scripts to run application
             config         <-- contains the configuration
             docs           <-- contains release notes and useful information
             images         <-- contains images used for icons
             lib            <-- contains the UDDI Browser jar and dependent JARs

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Requirements

This release of the UDDI Browser requires J2SE SDK, version 1.3.1 or higher.

Launching the UDDI Browser

There are two ways to launch the UDDI Browser, and both are configuration-free.

Windows Easy Launch

If you are on a Windows box it's easy, just double click on %INSTALL_DIR%\ub-0.2\bin\ub.bat.

Other Platform Launch

If you're on a non-Windows machine, or would rather use Ant, then you must have a version of Ant installed before you can run the UDDI Browser. Once Ant is installed, and you have set your ANT_HOME variable, then simply navigate to the %INSTALL_DIR%\ub-0.2\bin\ directory and execute ant. This will automatically load the browser.

Using the UDDI Browser

See the User Guide for full details on using the UDDI Browser.

Changelog

The following changes have been made between version 0.1 and version 0.2.

  • Support for updates! Now you can use the UDDI Browser to create, edit and delete your UDDI content.
  • A Query Manager, that allows queries to be edited, saved and executed quickly in a single area.
  • Advanced querying, allowing full query capabilities allowed in the UDDI v2 query specification.
  • Quick access to stored queries from the toolbar.
  • My UDDI support. This allows you to combine queries to collectively form items you own or are interested in. You can get at all your items with just a single mouse-click.
  • Create integration with My UDDI. Newly created items are automatically added to your My UDDI, so they will be there for immediate editing.
  • UDDI registry summary retrieval. Although not recommended for use with public UDDI nodes, owners of private UDDI nodes can use this facility to quickly retrieve a summary of your objects being managed by your UDDI registry.
  • UDDI registry "quick format". This allows owners of UDDI registries to remove the whole content of their registry with just one step.

 

Known Limitations of this Release

The following list summarizes the known limitations of this release of the UDDI Browser.

  • Language support incomplete. The lauguage support for names and descriptions is currently incomplete. Some names and descriptions don't allow the setting of language.
  • Not all errors are reported to the user. Sometimes when an update fails, the error isn't made obvious to the user.
  • Failure of updates causes refresh of browser contents. When updating, if an error occurs, the browser still refreshes all viewable items in the browser.
  • User guide needs to be updated to reflect the latest features.

These items and any other serious defects will be fixed in the next release of this application. Thanks for your patience, as this is still an evolving project.