J鷨gen,
I personally do not see any new ebXML registries coming
or a compelling reason for them to come. The only viable ebXML Registry
implementations I know of (Infravio [1] and Sun [2]) support both ebXML and
UDDI, which I take as a consumer empowerment sales tactic. In my admittedly
biased view, the momentum is certainly on the UDDI side with all SOA-enabling
infrastructure (message/protocol intermediation brokers, development and
management tools) shipping with built-in support for UDDI only. Because registry
is not so much a feature of an architecture as it is its platform supporting
specific capabilities, its value is proportional to the number of systems that
leverage it. There simply isn't enough of a market opportunity or a viable
go-to-market strategy for an alternative universal registry standard at this
time.
Although SOA transformation is what drives a lot of
infrastructure spending these days, I do believe that ebXML Registry has a
defensible niche in B2B collaboration in specific verticals. Whether there is
enough of a vendor ecosystem and innovation around ebXML to sustain it is
another matter.
Somewhat tangential to your inquiry, I may note that if
you are accessing the registry from within a Java platform, you may use JAXR
(Java API for XML Registries), which is designed to support both ebXML and
UDDI information models and API's through a common client interface. However it
is unlikely that you will be able to run the same code against both ebXML and
UDDI registries without change.
Regards,
Daniel
[1] http://www.infravio.com/products.php#x-reg
[2] http://www.sun.com/products/soa/registry/
From: J鷨gen Thyme [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:54 PM
To:
Subject: [uddi-dev] ebXML registry and
UDDI comparisons
I have looked at the specs for v3
for the ebXML registry. Although the information model looks more detailed than
in UDDI my immediate thinking was that adding my taxonomies in UDDI I can
achieve a lot. And there are several implementations of
UDDI.
What are your thoughts? Will vendors
of UDDI registries add ebXML registry functionality to their existing products?
Or will there be a complete new set of registry products
coming?
Best regards / Med
venlig hilsen
J鷨gen
Thyme
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