OWL-S W3C Submission: Reference to ebXML

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Not sure if any others have seen this yet - it's OWL-S' "Relationship to Selected Other Technologies[1]" as part of its 22 November 2004 W3C Submission. The technologies discussed are:

• WSDL
• SOAP
• UDDI
• BPEL4WS
• CDL
• ebXML
• Grid services
• OWL and SWRL
• WSMO

The ebXML section is brief, with nothing earth-shattering (but good for us to be aware of). Key points:

 

- Although ebXML does not restrict the means of B2B interaction to Web services, their focus is essentially the same as that of OWL-S.

- Since OWL-S provides a language for the description of the behaviour of Web services, its scope is complementary to that of ebXML. In fact, OWL-S descriptions could themselves be used within ebXML to describe the business processes of interacting Web services.

 

[1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-OWL-S-related-20041122/#ebxml

 

Kind Regards,

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World