ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business Over the Internet |
By Alan Kotok, David R. R. Webber |
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Publisher | : New Riders Publishing |
Pub Date | : August 29, 2001 |
ISBN | : 0-7357-1117-8 |
Pages | : 384 |
| 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | Chapter 3. ebXML at Work |
| | | Case 1: Go-Go Travel, in Search of a New Business Model ”and 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | | Chapter 5. The Road Toward ebXML |
| | | The XML/edi Group |
| | | EDI: Still Important After All These Years |
| | | Describing Business Processes with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) |
| | | ebXML Founding Organizations and Process |
| | | Endnotes |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | 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 |
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| | | 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 |
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| | Part III: Learning More About ebXML |
| | | Appendix A. Acronyms |
| | | Acronyms Used in This Book |
| | | XML and E-Business Acronyms |
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| | | Appendix B. References |
| | | ebXML Technical Specifications |
| | | ebXML Technical Reports and Reference Materials |
| | | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Documents |
| | | EDI Standards |
| | | Books |
| | | Articles |
| | | Web Sites |
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