Publish Web Services workflows to UDDI
The Publish workflows to UDDI dialog box is organized into two tabs:
- Publish: Publish workflows to a UDDI registry to make the web services available in a UDDI registry.
- Browse: Publish business information and manage the web services you have published to UDDI registries.
To publish workflows to a UDDI registry
A FileNet workflow that contains a Receive system function, and that has been transferred to the Process Engine (PE) database, can be published to a UDDI registry. See About Web Services for additional information.
- In Process Configuration Console, use the following steps to check that the publish URL has been defined for the UDDI registry where you will publish the workflow.
See UDDI Registry List for additional details.
- Select the isolated region that contains the workflows to be published, and click Properties on the toolbar.
- On the Web Services tab, select the UDDI tab and select the UDDI Registry List tab.
- Confirm that the publish URL exists for the UDDI registry. Close the Properties window.
- With the isolated region selected, click Action and select Publish to UDDI.
- On the Publish tab, click Search to list workflow definitions with web services that have been transferred in the isolated region.
You can enter the first few letters of the name of a workflow definition in Search Web Services workflows to limit the number of items returned.
- In Web Service workflow search result, select one or more workflows to publish.
Click Select to move the selected items into the selected items list.
- Under Select UDDI registry, select the one where you intend to publish the workflow.
TIP An icon indicates any registry that cannot be reached.
- Click Publish.
If you have not previously published business entity information for the UDDI registry entry, you must specify the business name and business description, and then provide a user name and password for this business entity.
TIP Some UDDI registries use a default language for business information entries that do not specify the language. If you would like to specify a language for your business description and other business entity information, publish your business entity information to the UDDI registry using the options on the Browse tab before you publish your web services.
You can continue with the following section of this topic to view the published business entity and web service in the UDDI registry.
Browse and manage web services in UDDI registries
In the Publish to UDDI dialog box, the Browse UDDI tab displays the UDDI registries defined in the UDDI Registry list.
NOTE This list includes only UDDI registry entries with publish URLs.

The UDDI business registry tree displays the following elements:
- Root note - UDDI business registries
- UDDI Registry node - The name specified in the UDDI Registry list identifies the combination of a UDDI Registry and a business entity.
- In the illustration, there are three UDDI registry nodes. These correspond to the UDDI registry entries defined in the UDDI Registry list.
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A symbol indicates any item that is not accessible. |
- Business Entity node - Note that there is one business entity per UDDI Registry entry.
- Business Service node - Each business service node represents a web service published to the business entity. You can specify multiple FileNet workflows as web services under one business entity.
- tModel node - The details pane contains the WSDL URL for this web service.
To manage the business entities and web services published in the UDDI registries accessible in the current isolated region
You can perform the following actions related to publishing business entities and web services:
Action |
Procedure |
Publish a business entity for the selected UDDI Registry node |
(A UDDI Registry node with a publish URL must exist in the UDDI Registry list. This entry may or may not have a business entity name defined.)
- On the Browse UDDI tab, right-click the appropriate UDDI Registry entry and select New.
NOTE If a business entity has already been published to the UDDI Registry entry, you cannot publish another business entity to the node.
- Select the Business Name node.
- On the General tab, enter a name for the business entity.
Choose a language.
You can enter additional names in other languages for the same business entity.
- Enter a description and choose a language. (Optional)
You can enter additional descriptions in other languages.
To enter a longer description, click Modify on the toolbar.
- To enter contact information, click the Contacts tab and add one or more contacts, plus their addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
To import contact information currently defined in the isolated region UDDI repository, click Import.
- When you have entered all the business information, click Publish to publish the business entity information to the specified UDDI Registry.
At the prompt, log on to the registry.
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Display the list of web services published to a business entity
Find the URL of a web service WSDL |
- On the Browse UDDI tab, click the appropriate registry entry.
- Open the business entity and the business service.
- Click a tModel node to display the WSDL URL.
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Update business entity information |
- On the Browse UDDI tab, select the appropriate business entity.
- Make the desired changes in the business description and contact information.
NOTE Once the business information has been published, you can change the business entity name, but you cannot change the name of the publish user.
- Click Publish.
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Refresh the display of business information or the list of published web services for a business entity |
- Select the business entity
- Click Refresh to display recently published business information or web services.
Note that you can update only one business entity at a time since this action accesses the UDDI registry. |