[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: [ebxml-iic] 6/16/2003: Updated News
"e-Business Messaging Interchange Assessment." From the OASIS/CEFACTRegards.
Joint Marketing Team. White Paper. May 23, 2003. 19 pages. Supplied by
David Webber (Acting Chair, OASIS/CEFACT JMT). The paper evaluates a
'bewildering array' of interchange format and mechanism choices,
including FAX, Dial-in IVR, EDI VAN (sftp), AS2 EDIINT, Email, Dial-in
modem, Web Pages, SOAP, and ebMS. The report attempts to provide
analysis tools that can help the reader decipher the optimum choices
for a given set of business needs.
http://xml.coverpages.org/OASIS-MessagingReq052303.pdf
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200306.html#MessagingReqWP
Subject:
[ebxml-mktg] Article about ebXML & Steel 24x7
From:
David RR Webber - XML ebusiness <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>
Date:
Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:23:42 -0400
To:
ebxml Marketing <ebxml-mktg@lists.ebxml.org>
Full text:
http://www.looselycoupled.com/stories/2003/message-infr0528.html#content
"Sending an unmistakeable message
by David Longworth
May 28th, 2003
An e-business messaging protocol that is helping enterprises migrate
from EDI to XML could become an essential ingredient of web services
infrastructure.
For all the current hoopla about web services, the dominant standard in
most industries for exchanging business documents electronically is
still the pre-Internet e-commerce standard of EDI. Users have made
significant investments in EDI software and skills, and they know they
can rely on the technology.
...
The recommended path for EDI users embarking on that migration is
through adopting the ebXML standard for e-business data, jointly
developed by the UN body that oversees EDI and by e-business standards
organization OASIS. Because it includes support for EDI in its messaging
protocols, ebXML can provide a trusted migration path into XML and web
services for conservative users.
As STEEL24-7 has discovered, it can also help plug an embarrassing gap
in the web services standards stack, by contributing a mature,
vendor-neutral messaging standard that adds security and reliability to
the core web services message format of SOAP. "ebXML was the only
standard that provides the features we were looking for. There were no
alternatives," says Tholen. "Web services bodies are working on
reliability and security but the specs are not ready yet and they are
not interoperability tested."
...
Reliability layers
Although STEEL24-7 uses ebMS within an ebXML environment, the messaging
standard can also be used independently. Proponents argue that its
maturity as a finished specification for high-volume e-business makes it
an ideal candidate to rectify the current lack of a standard for
reliable messaging in the web services stack, where rival initiatives
such as WS-Reliability and WS-ReliableMessaging are still jockeying for
position.
"You need several levels of reliability," says Jean-Jacques Dubray,
chief architect at Eigner Precision Lifecycle Management, based in
Waltham, Massachusetts, whose software enables manufacturers to exchange
product engineering data with their designers and component suppliers.
"The web services camp does not yet understand these levels of
protocols, they only understand transport-level reliability."
Within the multi-layered ebXML standard framework, ebMS forms the
transport layer, which fulfils the base-level reliability requirement of
ensuring that a message reaches its destination. Other elements of ebXML
add further layers of reliability, such as, explains Dubray, confirming
that the message was in a valid format and thus intelligible to the
receiver ("structural reliability"), and that it was processed without
errors ("substantive reliability").
...
"
Anders Tholén
Ferrologic AB
Steel 24-7: +32 2 334 2407 (Brussels)
Mobile: +46 70 787 6787
e-mail: anders.tholen@ferrologic.com
Subject: [xml-dev] HKU CECID Released ebMail Source Code to ebXML Development Community From: Patrick Yee <kcyee@cecid.hku.hk> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:58:14 +0800 To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org ebMail Source Code Donated to ebXML Development Community Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China – June 12, 2003 – Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS), The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is pleased to announce its code base donation of ebMail to the ebXML development community. This open-source project is released under the Academic Free License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/academic/hph) that permits royalty free use of the source and binaries. Developers are encouraged to download ebMail at www.freebxml.org and subscribe to the mailing lists set up at sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebmail) for enquiries. ebMail is a desktop e-mail client which helps organizations, small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SME) in particular, to engage in B2B e-commerce activities. This lightweight toolkit enables trading partners to exchange business documents cost-effectively through email, or ebXML Message Service (ebMS) over Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP). ebMail is a trimmed-down ebMS handler which does not require any application server software and dedicated Internet connection to use ebXML. It allows a user to compose electronic documents offline through graphical user interface (GUI), and send and receive documents when the user is connected to the Internet. ebMail employs plug-in modules to provide different graphical user interface (GUI) forms for capturing business data into different schemas of XML documents (e.g. price quotation, purchase order, invoice, etc.) and binary file attachments (e.g. PDF, graphics, etc.). These plug-ins can load, save, and manipulate business data in the local file system, as well as import documents from office applications to the GUI for efficient document handling. ebMail plug-ins can also handle simple business processes that define choreographies of document exchanges. A Java-based and platform-neutral application, ebMail provides a Java API for third-party developers to create plug-ins. The plug-in API allows developers to program GUI handlers, convert input data into XML documents of a specific schema, and develop advanced features, such as document management in the local file system. XML documents composed by ebMail plug-ins are packaged into ebMS messages and send and receive messages in ebMS/SMTP through central mechanisms. Furthermore, ebMail can digitally sign and encrypt outgoing documents, and decrypt and authenticate incoming documents using digital certificates, and it makes use of ebMS code from another open-source project, Hermes (http://www.freebxml.org). ebMail was developed by CECID under the auspices of Project Phoenix. Project Phoenix is primarily sponsored by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Government. Two of the pilot project partners using ebMail are Department of Health of the Hong Kong Government and Hong Kong Observatory. CECID has developed a prototype based on ebMail for the Department of Health to streamline its pharmaceutical products import and export licensing application procedure. The Center is starting the development of a new ebMail plug-in for Hong Kong Observatory, which has been designated by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to collect world weather information for the WMO’s Website. About CECID (http://www.cecid.hku.hk): Established in January 2002, the Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID) at the University of Hong Kong conducts e-commerce research and development with the vision of helping Hong Kong increase its competitiveness in the international arena. CECID has the mission to develop e-commerce enabling technologies, to join important international e-commerce initiatives, to support e-commerce standardization for Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region, and to transfer e-commerce technology and skills to the community. As an OASIS member, CECID is participating in standardization projects, such as ebXML and Universal Business Language (UBL). CECID also collaborates with a number of lead technology users in the Asia-Pacific Region on the application of advanced e-commerce technologies. About freebXML (http://www.freebxml.org) FreebXML is an initiative that aims to foster the development and adoption of ebXML and related technologies. The mission of freebXML is to provide a centralized Website for ebXML users and developers to access and share ‘free’ ebXML code, applications, and development and deployment experience. Founding members of this initiative include technical leaders from international technology firms, government organizations, standardization bodies, and academic institutions. FreebXML is sponsored and hosted by CECID and the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems of HKU. About ebXML (http://www.ebxml.org): The mission of ebXML is to provide an open XML-based infrastructure enabling the global use of electronic business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner by all parties. ebXML (Electronic Business using Extensible Markup Language), sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Using ebXML, companies now have a standard method to exchange business messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common terms and define and register business processes. About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org): OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. PR Contacts for Press and Analysts: Dorris Tai (cwtai@cecid.hku.hk) Business Manager Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID) Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems The University of Hong Kong Tel: +852 2859 2818 Fax: +852 2547 4611 URL: http://www.cecid.hku.hk ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]