7.7 Service Discovery
Do-it-yourself build-time lookup is a common choice for both
RESTful and for WS-* Web services. Many successful large-scale
industry deployments of Web services use groupware or Web portals
supported by databases as their service repositories [54].
WS-* offers Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
(UDDI) registries as an additional technology option. While this
technology has been mature and stable for several years now, it
has failed to reach widespread acceptance in the industry. Several
proprietary WSDL-based registry and repository products exist.