Pre-requisites

You will need:

1. A running java servlet container. The following instructions assume Tomcat 4.0.1 running with default configuration.

2. And of course, compiled copy of soapuddi. You can pick it up from here.

Instructions for installation

1. Unzip soapuddi.zip and extract it to a temporary folder. 

2. Copy soapuddi.war file from here to your <tomcat_home>/webapps directory.

3. If you plan to use MS-ACCESS
   1. Create and ODBC DSN by the name of uddi and point it to uddi.mdb in your <tomcat_home>
   2. Copy uddi.mdb from here to your <tomcat_home>

   Else you should hack a little of config file that is part of soapuddi.war and edit the URL and DRIVER for the database you are using. You will also need to copy the JDBC drivers to <tomcat_home>/lib. You will also need to create a database in your database server. SQL scripts are provided with the binary package of soapuddi.

To Run

• To see if your server is installed correctly point your browser to http://yourhost:yourport/soapuddi/uddi (which typically would be http://localhost:8080/soapuddi/uddi). You should see a page with "Sorry, I don't speak via HTTP GET- you have to use HTTP POST to talk to me."
• Now, try accessing http://localhost:8080/soapuddi. You should get a list of services that you can access. Try playing with them. If all of them are running then UDDI registry is ready for use.

• You can make your own clients to talk to it or can use some existing clients like uddi4j, which is an open source UDDI client from IBM. You can download uddi4j from here.There is a sample available along with source showing you how to use UDDI4J with SOAPUDDI.