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defines business information, service information, binding information
and information about specifications for services. The basic organization
of the UDDI data structures is as follows (see Figure 11.3):
Business Entity — (top level structure that describes a business)
-Business Service — (describes a service and groups a series of
related Web services related either to a
category of services business process or a
category of servicesuch as purchasing and
security)
-Binding Template —> points to a tModel (contains the information
required to
actually invoke this
service)
-Binding Template —> points to a tModel
-other Binding Templates ...
-other Business Services ...
-Binding Templates ...
tModels is a list of references that provide the access information,
i.e., metadata about Web services. Each binding element contains this
element. There is an m:n (many-to-many) relationship between business
services and tModels.
-name
-description
-URL pointers to specifications
Since each business entity, business service and tModel can be
associated with single or multiple categories and identifiers, UDDI
supports precise search based on these categories and identifiers.