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UDDI support in BizTalk Server R3 or Windows Server 2008??

As follow up on my previous post regarding the new capabilities in BizTalk Server 2006 R3 the following question may rise:

What’s with UDDI, doesn’t Windows server 2008 have UDDI?

As part of this next BizTalk Server release, Microsoft will be transitioning the packaging/distribution of Microsoft’s UDDI capabilities from Windows Server over to BizTalk Server. Given the close relationship of web service registries with metadata repository technologies, it makes sense to more closely align the distribution and evolution of Microsoft’s registry/repository functionality. As a result, Microsoft will be deprecating UDDI v2 services out of the next major version of Windows Server, and offering an enhanced registry (UDDI v3 compatible) with BizTalk Server’s next release. (Current UDDI v2 customers will be receive guidance on how to move to UDDI v3 capabilities in a straight-forward manner.) This enables a core foundational element of your SOA infrastructure, and helps prepare for some of the forthcoming modeling and repository investments planned in the “Oslo” wave of products.

Published Fri, May 2 2008 11:47 AM by Mark Willems

Filed under: Biztalk 2006 , Windows Server 2008, UDDI

Comments

# re: UDDI support in BizTalk Server R3 or Windows Server 2008??@ Sunday, October 05, 2008 11:31 AM

Hi Mark, I dont completely agree with moving it to the BizTalk package at this point.

This does not apply to my environment but in an environment where Microsoft's implementation of UDDI is used for cataloging without having BizTalk in place it may not be a viable option.

If Microsoft's short term roadmap were to combine a product, lets say the Connected Services Framework and BizTalk into an ESB product suite and have UDDI 3.0 bound to that product I may be less inclined to argue my point.

So, bottom line @ this time I'd say stick it in Server 2008 until BizTalk is closer to a complete ESB solution.

by Elmar

# re: UDDI support in BizTalk Server R3 or Windows Server 2008??@ Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:11 AM

Well it's clearly a marketing play, as MS realize with growth UDDI registries behind the firewall, they realized that by tying UDDI to Biztalk, those web service app developers, who wouldn't necessarily be using BS, now need to buy a license for it. Its shabby.

by scope_creep

# re: UDDI support in BizTalk Server R3 or Windows Server 2008??@ Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:14 AM

Hi Mark, I agree with Elmar. It's clearly a marketing ploy, as MS realize with growth in UDDI registries behind the firewall, they know that by tying UDDI to Biztalk, those web service app developers, who are building generation 2 and 2 SOA infrastructure, who wouldn't necessarily be using Biztalk, now need to buy a license for it. Who is going to build an UDDI v2.0 2003 server, with the OS, almost at end of life? Its shabby really.