The UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) Project is an 18 month effort to define a set of specifications that will make it easier for businesses to accelerate the use of B2B and commerce over the Internet. UDDI does this by defining how companies can expose their business applications -- like ecommerce, order management, inventory, marketing, and billing -- as Web Services that can be directly and securely defined, discovered and integrated with business applications at trading partners and customers. This direct application-to-application integration over the Internet is a core building block of the Digital Economy and holds great promise for how businesses will transform themselves over the next decade.
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