Business Process Modeling

The ebXML Business Process and Information Meta Model is an approach that allows trading partners to define the details to drive a specific business process using standard modeling methodologies. As we already discussed in Chapter 3, a business process defines how trading partners interact, taking on roles, relationships, and responsibilities to facilitate interaction with other trading partners, and creating procedures for how the partners collaborate on business transactions.

The interaction between roles exists as processes that invoke business transactions. Each business transaction is expressed as an exchange of information (business documents) that may be composed from reusable business information objects at the ...

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