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After examining the basic blocks with Universal Business Language and XML Common Business Language, what else is missing for electronic business? A whole lot more is incorporated into Electronic Business XML, ebXML for short.
B2B collaboration requires more than just an XML vocabulary. You have to deal with:
ebXML provides concrete specifications to enable dynamic B2B collaborations.
ebXML aspires to become the global standard for electronic business, enabling anyone, especially small and medium-size enterprises, anywhere to do business with anyone else over the Internet. It is complementary to other existing B2B initiatives, from both the software developer community (e.g. UDDI, SOAP) and the business sphere (RosettaNet, TradeXchange, etc.).
The vision is to create a global electronic market place where enterprises of any size, anywhere can:
Such an end-to-end B2B XML Framework such as ebXML needs to cover many bases:
Let's look at each of them in turn.
Core components such as UBL or xCBL provide reusable low-level data structures such as party, address, phone, date, currency. They form a single, consistent lexicon used to define business process and information models that facilitates interoperability between disparate systems.
Finding a business party needs a yellow page service in the first place. While the registry is the index of all things ebXML, the repository is the holder. Both systems are based on a distributed model where the nodes can be maintained by industry groups, market places, exchanges, communities, or individual companies.
Registering your business in an ebXML Registry adds your offerings to the index of all information in the repository, having your business listed in a rich query facility for finding business partners. Your specifications, containing Collaborative Protocol Profiles, Core components, and Classification and categorization schemes all go into an ebXML Repository.
Universal Description and Discovery Interface (UDDI) is a new XML-based technology for building registries. UDDI will be one of the enabling technolgies to help you find ebXML services.
On to profiles and agreements...
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Created: Dec 24, 2001
Revised: Dec 24, 2001
