Date: Sep. 23, 2001
Link: http://java.sun.com/features/2001/09/ebxmlkey.html
Source Author or Organization: Kammie Kayl, Sun Microsytems

Electronic business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML), a project sponsored by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) standards bodies, provides infrastructure for electronic business.

This article identifies several key components that comprise ebXML. Collaboration Protocol Profiles (CPPs) and Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPAs) describe supported message-exchange/collaboration capabilities and transaction requirements. Several components for handling CPPs and CPAs are explained, including business process specifications, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) -based messaging, the ebXML registry/repository service (for storing CPPs and CPAs, documents or document fragments, Java code in JAR files, audio and video, etc.), Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) for registry services, Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) for remote calls and Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) for Business-to-Business (B2B) ecommerce messaging. The article also provides several links for related reading.