[Fwd: Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema Versioning]

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

Team,

Here is a followup I posted to the thread Joe had posted on earlier.

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Subject: 	Re: [xml-dev] XML Schema Versioning
Date: 	Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:34:34 -0500
From: 	Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>
To: 	'xml-dev@lists.xml.org' <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
References: 	<531C0947F1E0844FBDDB065F2EA5329501953CB6@u607st65.aah.co.uk>



Barwell Jonathan wrote:

> I am going to have to read the ebXML 2.5 Registry Services 
> Specification in some detail to see if this can solve some of the 
> issues that I have.  The ebXML registry is primarily designed for 
> ebusiness with external partners; what we are going to do is provide 
> internal services using SOA.  However, providing an internal registry 
> may have some advantages if the Life Cycle Management Service can 
> provide Object versioning that was not in the v2.0 specification.
>
Hi Barwell,

I wanted to point out that ebXML Registry is actually a general purpose 
Federated Content Registry/Repository and is successfully being used in 
both EAI and B2B use cases. I manage a royalty free open source project 
that provides an ebXML Registry implementation at:

http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net

We have over 150 users that are using the ebXML Registry and only a 
handful currently use it for eBusiness/B2B. The vast majority are using 
it as an internal Content Management solution.

Another common misconception about ebXML Registry is that it is useful 
only at design time and not at runtime. Again the vast majority of use 
cases that I have seen use it at runtime just like enterprise apps used 
to use relational databases.
A good example of runtime usage is being shown in an Epidemic Manage 
demo with real time Epidemic Alerts at XML 2003 next Wednesday (see 
signature below).

Some recurring use cases for ebXML Registry we have seen are:

   *

     Web service registry

   *

     Taxonomy management

   *

     XML Schema management

   *

     UBL schema management

   *

     Vocabulary Management

   *

     User and Role management

   *

     eForms Server

   *

     eGovernment registry

   *

     eBusiness Process registry

   *

     Partner profile registry

   *

     Medical content repository

   *

     Standards registry


So, despite its the *eb* in its name, and despite its roots,  ebXML 
Registry is really much more like a database for web services that can 
be used in B2B or internal use cases.

--
Regards,
Farrukh

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Regards,
Farrukh


|========================================================================|
|                                                                        |
| Going to XML 2003, Dec 8-12, Philadelphia PA?                          |
|                                                                        |
| Come see a very cool presentation and demo:                            |
|   "Epidemic Management Using OASIS ebXML, UBL and XACML Standards      |
|                                                                        |
| When: Wednesday, December 10 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM                       |
|                                                                        |
| Details at:                                                            |
|   http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/interopdemos_oasis.asp#4    |
|                                                                        |
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