Chapter Twelve. ebXML and Application Integration

There are standards, and there are standards. The ebXML (Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language) standard has evolved over the last few years into something very viable. Today, many organizations leverage ebXML as a B2B collaboration standard; sometimes they just use it within the enterprise.

To keep up with more modern Web services standards, ebXML has been updated to leverage Web services-based facilities such as UDDI and SOAP. Today, ebXML is a full-blown collaboration standard that supports everything from simple information exchange all the way to complex process integration.

One of the notions expressed in the world of ebXML is the concept of collaboration, or the ability to electronically ...

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