WebSphere Message Brokers
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Service publication

A service description can be published using a number of different mechanisms; each mechanism has different capabilities, and is suitable for use in different situations. When necessary, a service description can be published in more than one way. Although WebSphere Message Broker does not provide direct support for service publication, any of the mechanisms described can be used with WebSphere Message Broker.

Direct publishing
The service provider sends the service description directly to the service requester. You can accomplish this by using an e-mail attachment, an FTP site, or a CD ROM distribution.
Advertisement and Discovery of Services (ADS)
A Web server becomes a read-only directory advertising its own services, enabling B2B search engines to discover the services the Web server makes available.
DISCO
The service requester uses a HTTP GET mechanism to retrieve a Web service description from a network location that is specified by the service provider, and is identified with a URL.
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
A specification for distributed Web-based information registries of Web services. UDDI is also a publicly accessible set of implementations of the specifications that allow businesses to register information about the Web services they offer in order that other businesses can find them.
Related concepts
Web services architecture
Web services description
Web services terminology
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