Searching a UDDI Registry

After you create a connection profile to a UDDI registry, you can search the UDDI registry. All searches can be started by right-clicking the UDDI Registry connection profile icon in the Enterprise Explorer, which opens the UDDI Search dialog. The UDDI Search dialog options are explained below.

Complete the basic search information.

Basic search options

Field	Description
Business	Looks for a business by name. For example, Sybase.
Service	Looks for a service. For example, GlobalWeather.
tModel	Looks for a taxonomy model (tModel). For example, uddi-org:types.
Name	Looks for a business, service, or tModel by its regular string name. For example: uddi-org:types (a tModel).
UUID (Universal Unique Identifier)	Look for a business, service, or tModel by its UUID code. For example: uuid:C1ACF26D-9672-4404-9D70-39B756E62AB4 (the UUID that represents the uddi-org:types tModel).
Search String	Enter the first part of the search term. Use % as a wildcard. For example, global% or %weather.
Language	Some registry items are qualified by language. To limit your search to items in a particular language, select the language, for example, German (Standard) de.
Limit returned results to	To prevent lengthy search times, select the check box and enter an integer, for example, 5. In this case, the search ends after the first 5 results are found.

If necessary, click Advanced to enter advanced search options.

Advanced search options

Field	Options and Description
Sort Results By	Name	Displays search results ordered by service name.
	Date	Displays search results ordered by the date the service was last updated or published to the UDDI registry.
	Unsorted	Displays search results in the order found, without sorting.
Sort Results Order	Ascending	Displays search results from A to Z.
Sort Results Order	Descending	Display search results from Z to A.
Exact Match	Clear the check box to expand your search to include results containing part or all of your search string. For example, a search for Calc can return the results Calc, Calculator, CalcSvc, and CalculatorADV if the check box is cleared.
Case Sensitive	Select the check box to include only results that have the same capitalization as your Search String.
Identifiers	(Business and tModel search types only) To narrow your search to include only a selected business identifier, for example, tax identifiers or Dun & Bradstreet's DUNS numbers, select the check box and click [...] to display the Identifiers dialog box, where you set up identifiers.
Categories	To narrow your search to include only selected categories, for example, businesses in the telecommunications industry or in North America, select the check box and click [...] to display the Categories dialog box, where you set up categories.
Search Node Name (Optional)	You can run a series of UDDI searches, each with their own search results folder: If you leave this field as-is (Search Results), your search will reuse the same search results folder, overwriting the previous search results. If you edit this field, for example, Search Results for Global 04, a new search results folder is automatically created with the new name.

Click OK to start the search.
Your search results are displayed in the Enterprise Explorer in the Search Results folder, depending on the name you selected for Search Node Name.