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ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet

ISBN: 0735711178
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 100

Authors: Alan Kotok, David Webber, David RR Webber

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• About the Authors
• About the Technical Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• Tell Us What You Think
• Preface
• Prologue
• Introduction
• E-Business Is Business First
• Business Is Bigger, and Different, But Is It Better?
• E-Business Technology Has a History
• The Task for ebXML
• ebXML Tests, Demonstrations, and Projections
• The ebXML Technology
• Purposes and Organization of This Book
• Conventions
• Endnotes
• Part I: Executive Overview of ebXML
• Chapter 1. There s No Business Like E-Business
• In Case You Hadn t Noticed, Doing Business Is Different Now
• Business Isn t So Simple Anymore
• From Just-in-Case to Just-in-Time Inventories
• Investors Want to See Your Internet Strategy
• Higher Volumes, Larger Scale, Bigger Numbers
• Can Your Company s Systems Keep Pace?
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): E-Business as We (Used to) Know It
• Endnotes
• Chapter 2. ebXML in a Nutshell
• Vision and Scope
• Software Processes, Puzzles, and Pyramids
• ebXML Process Flow
• A Look at the ebXML Technical Architecture
• Messaging Functions
• Getting Started with ebXML
• Endnotes
• Chapter 3. ebXML at Work
• Case 1: Go-Go Travel, in Search of a New Business Modeland Survival
• Case 2: Marathoner, a Runners Store That Goes the Distance on Inventory Control
• Case 3: World Beat, a Direct-Mail Catalog Company Using the Web to Compete with the Web
• Conclusions About ebXML at Work
• Endnotes
• Part II: ebXML Background and Details
• Chapter 4. The Promise of XML
• What Is XML?
• Building XML Messages from Processes to Data
• Is XML Ready for Business?
• Endnotes
• Chapter 5. The Road Toward ebXML
• The XMLedi Group
• EDI: Still Important After All These Years
• Describing Business Processes with the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• ebXML Founding Organizations and Process
• Endnotes
• Chapter 6. Business Requirements for ebXML
• Basic Goals and Scope
• General Principles and Business Requirements
• Interoperability
• Legal and Security Requirements
• Accommodating the Human Element
• Globalization
• Openness
• From Requirements to Specifications
• Endnotes
• Chapter 7. ebXML and Similar Web Services Specifications
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
• Web Services Description Language
• BizTalk
• Endnotes
• Chapter 8. ebXML Technical Architecture
• Business Process Specifications
• Registries and Repositories
• Trading Partner Profiles and Agreements
• Message Services
• Core Components
• Starting a Company s ebXML Operations
• Endnotes
• Chapter 9. Moving from Theory to Practice
• Of Catalogs and Suppliers
• Uncle Sam Likes Small Businesses
• How Does the CatXML Approach Relate to ebXML?
• And Now for the XML in CatXML
• Columbus, Registries, and Helping Discover the World
• Deployment Considerations and Benefits
• Delivering on the ebXML Promise
• Part III: Learning More About ebXML
• Appendix A. Acronyms
• Acronyms Used in This Book
• XML and E-Business Acronyms
• Appendix B. References
• ebXML Technical Specifications
• ebXML Technical Reports and Reference Materials
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Documents
• EDI Standards
• Books
• Articles
• Web Sites