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Report
from XML Europe 2003
ebXML
applications demonstrated live at London conference
23 May 2003 –
The XML
Europe 2003
conference held this month in London, showcased two
days of live demonstrations and presentations on Electronic
Business XML (ebXML)
that tackled demanding real-life business needs, to an overflow
audience each day. ebXML, a joint initiative of UN/CEFACT and
OASIS, is a collection of open specifications that enables
companies of any size and in any geographical location to conduct
business over the Internet.
Highlighting the event, a
group of five technology companies -- XT-I, Seeburger AG, Sun
Microsystems, Sonic Software, TIE International -- representing
the e-Business
Board for European Standardization,
in association with OASIS, demonstrated ebXML messaging in
real-life steel industry business scenarios. The business cases,
supplied by the European steel industry e-marketplace
Steel24-7,
showed transactions with XML and EDI business payloads sent and
received by different vendors’ systems using the ebXML
Messaging Services protocol. In each case the systems exchanging
the data integrated the payloads into simulated corporate
databases.
The demonstrations illustrated ebXML routinely
handling rigorous requirements of high-performance business under
realistic conditions. In one demonstration, the participants took
one of the systems out of service interrupting the transaction,
but the message remained in persistent storage -- a key
requirement of ebXML messaging – which allowed the message
to go through once the system came back online.
The event
featured several case studies of current business uses of ebXML
including: the telecommunications industry in the U.K. (Martin
Roberts, BT), the container shipping industry in India (Visva
Visvanathan, Indian Institute of Science), a travel industry
global distribution system in the U.S. (Mike Wheaton, Sun
Microsystems), General Motors (Dan Malks, Sun Microsystems), and
the international paper industry (Tilo Zimmermann, Ponton
Consulting).
The program also discussed tests,
interoperbility, and extensions of the ebXML architecture,
including: the European openXchange project (Erwin Folmer and
Dennis Krukkert, TNO E-business), an open-source implementation
of the ebXML registry specifications (Farrukh Najmi, Sun
Microsystems), Content Assembly Mechanism (David Webber,
SmartDraw), ebXML Test Framework (Jacques Durand, Fujitsu), ebXML
Test Centers (Monica Martin, Sun Microsystems), and
interoperability of ebXML messaging (Rik Drummond, Drummond
Group).
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