eBusiness Metamodel EARLY DRAFT 0.03

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

If 1.0 is a release, ready for public draft, please consider this a 0.03.

The purpose is to capture the state of ebXML, WS, CEFACT and 
requirements of business.  The concepts on this can be mapped back to 
the ebXML Requirements document.

We may not have time to discuss this in NO but it is interesting to view.

Please note that the names of certain items do not necessarily 
correspond to the names of the work governing them.  For example, the 
OASIS CAM work MAY be potentially used as the way to constrain Business 
Payload Metadata. I do not make any implied warranties as to such being 
true or false.

There are also several departures from existing ebXML groups.  The 
details for "TimeToPerform" have been  subclassed to a class of their 
own since they are used by the BusinessCollaboration, CPP, CPA and 
BusinessProcess classes.  I have added two attributes for value and 
qualifier (units of measure).  This is to cater to both short and long 
running business processes/collaborations.  We cannot always assume it 
would be expressed in days (not precise enough for some) or seconds (the 
instance values may become unmanageable if you have something that runs 
7 years (220,752,000 seconds).

As per Dale's message, we may have already identified some unnecessary 
containership.

Comments, flames, suggestions, etc may be directed at me in person in 
new orleans.

Duane Nickull

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Senior Standards Strategist
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://www.adobe.com

ebXML-metamodel3.pdf