Re: [egov] ebXML and web services

[Duane Nickull <duane@yellowdragonsoft.com>]

Paul:

I have lots of experience in this. In fact, Yellow Dragon Software has 
made several sales to government bodies related to ebXML registry. ebXML 
registry software can be downloaded from our website for a free eval.

http://www.yellowdragonsoft.com

I have set up a testbed registry for use by this group.  The only 
problem is that some may not be able to view it if your ISP has an issue 
with proxies.  The URI is

http://registry.yellowdragonsoft.com:81/

Anyone who can see it and wants an account to play around with it is 
welcome to explore it.  Our section is under "Pilot Projects" 
classification node.

We also have CPA support built into our ebXML Messaging product.  The 
three products work together seamlessly to make ebXML very real.  We 
don't have any past experience with integrating SAML functionality 
however it should not be too difficult. (caveat: nothing is ever as easy 
as it first seemed it would be)

There is an architecture that I participated within three years ago to 
use ebXML for eForms submission for the Canadian Government. The 
architecture is still very valid and I would be willing to share it 
offline.  In fact, a chapter was written into a book using it as a case 
study (Wrox Press).

That architecture used a full scale registry, combined with ebXML 
Messaging and CPA management running over SMTP (Citizens do not always 
have persistent connections tothe WWW) and support for dynamically 
driven eForms.  The eForms is one of the most interesting components 
since it uses metadata in the registry to power the forms presentation 
(only certain people can see certain parts of the form and it gets 
displayed in different languages depending on what part of Canada you 
are in).

Please contact me offline to learn more.

cheers

Duane Nickull
 

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Paul Spencer wrote:

>I have recently been thinking more about overall architectures for
>e-Government. Most architectures need a combination of transactions (such as
>the ability to file a tax return) and simple services that will be used by
>interoperating systems. An example of the latter might be the need to
>transform a name from the Extensible Name Language to/from a local format or
>to look up a postal address based on a unique property reference. It seems
>logical (to me at least) that the transactions would use ebXML and the
>services would use SOAP/WSDL.
>
>Treating each separately, the ebXML part would need an ebXML registry in
>which would be stored business process specifications and CPPs (among other
>things). Typically, the services would use a UDDI registry. Does anyone have
>experience of having these working together or of combining them? And what
>about combining SAML into this? I see this as totally independent, but
>others might have different views.
>
>Regards
>
>Paul Spencer
>Director
>Boynings Consulting Ltd
>http://www.boynings.co.uk
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