UDDI Browser 1.0-beta1 - User Guide

Contents

Main Window

When the UDDI Browser is launched the user is presented with a window that is split into three sections, containing search results, details on items selected in the search results and a log area detailing UDDI operations.

Configuring UDDI Registries

The UDDI registry configuration can be acessed by selecting the "Manage" menu and by selecting the "UDDI Registries..." menu item.  Multiple registries may be configured, and the UDDI Browser comes pre-configured with the following public registries:
Each registry is configured with both the inquery and publish URL's, however please note that they will have to be updated with usernames and passwords for any registry writes to succeed (creation, updates and deletions).

There are four pieces of information, of which only the inquery URL is mandatory.  The UDDI specification requires no authentication for inquiries, so the username and password are only required for publishing purposes.

Name
 Description
Inquiry URL
 This is the URL of the UDDI registry for inquiries
Publish URL
 This is the URL of the UDDI registry for publishing
Username
 The username used for publishing
Password
 The password used for publishing

Please note: Only UDDI version 2 registries are supported by this release.

Searching

The UDDI registry configuration can be acessed by selecting the "Manage" menu and by selecting the "Find..." menu item, or by selecting the "Search" toolbar button. Businesses, services and tModels can be searched using this screen.  The target registry must be selected.  To keep the results of previous searches de-select the checkbox titled "Clear contents from previous searches". Finally the find criteria must be supplied, which varies depending on whether you're searching for businesses, services or tModels.

Deleting

There are currently two ways of deleting entries in a registry.  The first method involves querying for the item and using the user interface to delete hte item.  The second method is using scriplets. please refer to the Scriplets section for more details.  To delete items, select them in the results pane and select the toolbar button with "X".

Scriptlets

The UDDI registry configuration can be acessed by selecting the "Manage" menu and by selecting the "Scriptlets..." menu item.  Scriptlets allow users to define actions that can be stored and executed directly to target registries.