Accessing entity data from a UDDI registry

• US 20060026125A1
• Filed: 07/21/2005
• Published: 02/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Breeds, Robert John
• Application Number:
  US11/186,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20060026125A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

The invention provides a method, a UDDI registry, and a computer program product for accessing a UDDI entity defined by a tModel. A uddi-org:general_keywords keyedReference is added to the tModel to provide a value that may be used in order to access data associated with the entity. Accordingly, this is read and used when accessing the data. Further, a second uddi-org:general_keywords keyedReference may be added to the tModel to provide a value that may be used to display in a GUI tool in order to represent the entity. Accordingly, this value is read and displayed on a GUI tool in order to represent the entity.

Claims

1. A method for a UDDI registry to access data associated with a UDDI entity, the method comprising the steps:

accessing a tModel defining the UDDI entity;

reading from the tModel a uddi-org;

general_keywords keyedreference, the keyedreference defining a value; and

using the value to access data associated with the UDDI entity.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising the further step of:

reading from the tModel a uddi-org;

general_keywords keyedReference, the keyedReference defining a name;

displaying the name on a GUI tool in order to represent the entity;

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the value comprises a database key;

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the UDDI entity is a taxonomy.

5. A UDDI registry comprising:

an element that accesses a tModel defining a UDDI entity;

a reader that reads from the tModel a uddi-org;

general_keywords keyedReference, the keyedReference defining a value;

an element that uses the value to access data associated with the UDDI entity.

6. The UDDI registry of claim 5 further comprising:

a reader that reads from the tModel a uddi-org;

general_keywords keyedReference, the keyedreference defining a name;

an element that displays the name on a GUI tool in order to represent the entity;

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the value comprises a database key;

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the UDDI entity is a taxonomy.

9. A computer usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured to:

access a tModel defining the UDDI entity;

read from the tModel a uddi-org;

general_keywords keyedreference, the keyedReference defining a value; and

use the value to access data associated with the UDDI entity.

10. The computer usable medium of claim 9, wherein the computer program code further comprises computer executable instructions configured to:

read from the tModel a uddi-org;

general_keywords keyedReference, the keyedReference defining a name; and

display the name on a GUI tool in order to represent the entity.

11. The computer usable medium of claim 9, wherein the value comprises a database key.

12. The computer usable medium of claim 9, wherein the UDDI entity is a taxonomy.