UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. UDDI is an industry initiative which aims to enable businesses to quickly, easily, and dynamically find and carry out transactions with one another. A UDDI registry contains cataloged information about businesses; the services that they offer; and communication standards and interfaces they use to conduct transactions. A UDDI registry provides a standards-based foundation infrastructure for locating services, invoking services, and managing metadata about services (security, transport, or quality of service).