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Davanum Srinivas

Here's a stand-alone JAXM Client that can connect to IBM's UDDI Registry found at https://www-3.ibm.com/services/uddi/protect/registry.html.

import javax.xml.soap.*;
import javax.xml.messaging.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class UddiPing {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        if (args.length != 1)  {
            System.err.println("Usage: UddiPing business-name");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        // Create the connection and the message factory.
        SOAPConnectionFactory scf = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
        SOAPConnection connection = scf.createConnection();
        MessageFactory msgFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
        
        // Create a message
        SOAPMessage msg = msgFactory.createMessage();
        
        // Create an envelope in the message
        SOAPEnvelope envelope = msg.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
        
        // Get hold of the the body
        SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();
        body.addChildElement(envelope.createName("find_business", "",
                                                 "urn:uddi-org:api"))
            .addAttribute(envelope.createName("generic"),
                          "1.0")
            .addAttribute(envelope.createName("maxRows"),
                          "100")
            .addChildElement("name").addTextNode(args[0]);
        
        URLEndpoint endpoint
            = new URLEndpoint("http://www-3.ibm.com/services/uddi/testregistry/inquiryapi");
        msg.saveChanges();
        
        SOAPMessage reply = connection.call(msg, endpoint);
        
        System.out.println("Received reply from: "+endpoint);
        reply.writeTo(System.out);
        
        connection.close();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}
}