Better Than It Used To Be

In 2003, the (broken) UDDI had elements named Body.

Things are better because the description is getting better, for both search and the WSDL.
SEEKDA! is really a great service search engine: almost practical!
It certainly helps a programmer, if not a program.

This is better than UDDI but still not full semantics: I still cannot find a service that I know will reserve a hotel because this is still a keyword search.

And since there are no common semantics for the WSDL elements,
all implemented services are internal: Impractical.
We need to get back to the idea of service descriptions.

©2012 Charles Petrie - permission to reproduce widely with attribution.