XMLView: Discover domain specific service description in a UDDI compliant registry

In recent years we have seen the wide adoption of Web services architecture in grid computing. Service discovery, as one of the critical tasks in Web services architecture, is addressed by the UDDI specification. However, UDDI does not gain as much popularity as other Web services specifications such as WSDL and SOAP. At the same time, a number of domain-specific service description models are developed to address the problem of service discovery in specific application domains of grid computing. In this paper, we argue that both UDDI and domain-specific service description models can complement each other, instead of replacing each other. To demonstrate this, we present a system called XMLView that is able to accommodate domain-specific service descriptions and present them in a UDDI compliant view. Queries expressed on the domain-specific model are also supported.