Re: [ubl-dev] UBL payload and client-server integration tools

[Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@SoftML.Net>]

At 06:58 PM 2006-11-09 -0500, Fulton Wilcox wrote:
>Stephan et al:
>
>What are the implications of fairing UBL into RIA architectures?
>.....
>The second is to consider use of RIA techniques within the more typical
>eBusiness server-to-server exchange of transactions. RIA calls are built for
>speed and light touch on bandwidth, so the fit would be to highly repetitive
>transactions - e.g., price checks, inventory availability checks,
>transportation scheduling, etc.
>                                        Fulton Wilcox
>                                        Colts Neck Solutions lLC

Very interesting thoughts about RIA & the "built for speed and light
touch" stuff.  I'm much delighted to hear about this conversation.
I don't know much about RIA stuff, but do think the "speed and light
touch" aspect is interesting to explore for UBL.

 From UBL instances' perspective, this could either be viewed or translated
as (A) an encoding problem, or (B) a translation problem.

One could use specifications from binary XML to do (A) with significant
reduction in textual bytes in the instance payload.  But I suspect
RIA is going for the really highly interactive sort of communication
environment and might need a more rudimentary (B) solution.  In a way,
while UBL TC produces schemas as normative output, there's no limitation
that the instances cannot be mapped and stored in another manner.

One quick thought that comes to mind is to assign a UBL-wide unique
ID to each and every BBIE, ABIE and ASBIE, using possibly a 16-bit
word and values being assigned authoritatively only through/by UBL TC.
Structural composition of the BIEs could be easily done through usual
header/trailer byte style, or header-fixed-length packets.



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