Service publication

A service description can be published using a number of different mechanisms; each mechanism has different capabilities, and is suitable for use in different situations. When necessary, a service description can be published in more than one way. Although CICS® does not provide direct support for service publication, any of the mechanisms described can be used with CICS.

Direct publishing
This is the simplest mechanism for publishing service descriptions: the service provider sends the service description directly to the service requester. Ways to accomplish this include using an e-mail attachment, an FTP site, or a CD ROM distribution.
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DISCO
These proprietary protocols provide a dynamic publication mechanism. The service requester uses a simple HTTP GET mechanism to retrieve a Web service descriptions from a network location that is specified by the service provider, and identified with a URL.
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
A specification for distributed Web-based information registries of Web services. UDDI is also a publicly accessible set of implementations of the specification that allow businesses to register information about the Web services they offer so that other businesses can find them.