Deployment Profile Template 1.1 for ebMS 2.0 and DeploymentProfile Template 0.1 for ebCPPA 2.0comments.

[Sacha Schlegel <sschlegel@cyclonecommerce.com>]

ebBP team,

The ebMS deployment profile template is verion 1.1 and can be found at
[1]. 

The "OASIS Deploymnet Profile Template Version 0.1 for OASIS
Specification CPPA V2.0" [2] document has been revitalized in the ebXML
IIC TC a few weeks back.

As software systems take care of ebXML messaging the ebXML endusers are
faced with the next level that is CPA's.

It is the tasks of the ebXML endusers to create and manage their CPA's.
With the rich configuration setting capabilities of the CPA this is can
be a not so easy task even for someone familiar with ebXML CPA's.

The bridge to ebBP.

A community may define whether its CPA's must or must not comply with
next upper level ebBP's. If a CPA must comply, eg all messages between
the two roles of the CPA must be found in the CPA. Further
BusinessTransactionCharacteristics must be respected from the ebBP
instance as well as the ActionContexts. Further, the ebBP business
signals must be listed in the CollaborationRoles as well.

Maybe there are no upper level ebBP's ... so the parties must come to
grips how they call their services, roles and actions. Maybe a community
chooses to not use ebBPs but other collaborative business process
description specifications.

Further for a hub-spoke community it may be very helpful if the hub is
the CPA management authority so that the trading partners have the
contact information for CPA updates, certificates updates etc.

Similiar considerations can be made for ebBP. 

Which features of the ebBP spec are supported by the community? Which
condition expression languages, such as XPath, OCL, others, are
supported by this community?

I think the ebXMl enduser community is thankful for any help of any
form, such as a Deployment Profile Template.  

Regards

Sacha

[1]
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-iic/download.php/13212/ebMS2-Deployment-Profile-Template-1.1-d.doc
[2]
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-iic/download.php/13665/CPA2-Deployment-Profile-Template-01.doc