The Matchmaker is a web service that helps make
connections between service requesters and service providers.
The Matchmaker serves as a "yellow pages" of service
capabilities. The Matchmaker allows users and/or
software agents to find each other by providing a
mechanism for registering service capabilities.
Registration information is stored as advertisements.
When the Matchmaker agent receives a query from a
user or another software agent, it searches its
dynamic database of advertisements for agents that
can fulfill the incoming request(s). Thus, the
Matchmaker also serves as a liaison between a
service requester and a service provider.