UDDI provides a mechanism that may be used by publishers to assert
relationships between businessEntity structures they publish and other
businessEntity structures according to any number of relationship type
schemes. See Appendix A Relationships and Publisher Assertions for more
information. This section defines a tModel representing a relationship type
system for use in describing the way businessEntity structures relate to one
another.
While UDDI provides for any number of relationship type system to be used in
relating businessEntity structures to one another, it is useful to define a
"starter set" of relationship types that publishers may use without needing
to define their own. The uddi-org:relationships relationship type system is
such a starter set that covers a number of basic relationships. All three
attributes are significant in keyedReferences that describe relationship
types. The keyValue attributes should contain well known but somewhat broad
versions of the relationship type, like those described in this relationship
type set. The keyName attributes should be used to more explicitly type the
relationship.