Introduction

The jUDDI Project lives or fails based on its human resources. Users and contributors alike help the project with ideas and brainpower. A common foundation of knowledge is required to effectively participate in this virtual community. The following is a list of documents that we have found helpful for us and may be helpful to you.

UDDI Specifications

UDDI.org
UDDI Version 1.0 Specification
UDDI Version 2.0 Specification
UDDI Version 3.0 Specification

UDDI Taxonomies

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
U.S. Census Bureau

United Nations Standard Products and Services Code System (UNSPSC) Version 3.1
U.S. Census Bureau

Articles, Tutorials and Best Practices

O'Reilly Java WebServices Chapter 6: "UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration"
Tyler Jewell and David Chappell

Best practices for Web services versioning
Keep your Web services current with WSDL and UDDI
Kyle Brown and Michael Ellis, IBM developerWorks
January 2004

Using WSDL in a UDDI Registry
John Colgrave and Karsten Januszewski, UDDI.org
November 2003

Registration and Discovery of Web Services Using JAXR with XML Registries such as UDDI and ebXML
The why and what of the new approach
Qusay H. Mahmoud, Sun Microsystems
June 2002

A New Approach to UDDI and WSDL Part 1
The why and what of the new approach
John Colgrave, IBM developerWorks
August 2003

A New Approach to UDDI and WSDL Part 2
Usage scenarios in publishing and finding WSDL service descriptions
John Colgrave, IBM developerWorks
September 2003

Understanding WSDL in a UDDI Registry Part 1
How to publish and find WSDL service descriptions
Peter Brittenham, Francisco Cubera, Dave Ehnebuske, Steve Graham, IBM developerWorks
September 2001 (updated September 2002)

Understanding WSDL in a UDDI Registry Part 2
How to publish and find WSDL service descriptions
Peter Brittenham, Francisco Cubera, Dave Ehnebuske, Steve Graham, IBM developerWorks
September 2001 (updated September 2002)

Understanding WSDL in a UDDI Registry Part 3
How to publish and find WSDL service descriptions
Peter Brittenham, IBM developerWorks
November 2001

Providing a Taxonomy for Use in UDDI Version 2
UDDI.org
July 2001

The Role of Taxonomies in UDDI: tModels Demystified
Ravi Trivedi, Developer.com

Versioning of Web Services: An UDDI Subscription-Based Approach
Aravilli Srinivasa Rao, Developer.com

Related Specifications

SOAP W3C Specification

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1

Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)

Other Resources

The Java Language Specification
Written by the creators of the Java Programming Language, this online book is considered by many to be the bible for programming in Java. A must read.

Javadoc
Javadoc is the automatic software documentation generator used by Java since it was first released. All code written for this project must be documented using Javadoc conventions.

The Java Code Conventions
This Sun document specifies the de-facto standard way of formatting Java code. All code written for this project must follow these conventions.