Chapter 5. The Road Toward ebXML


The emergence of XML raised the hopes of people seeking to supplant paper with an eventual solution enabling any company in any industry to do business electronically with any other company in the world. But, as explained in Chapter 4, "The Promise of XML," XML cannot do this alone. Any hope of using XML and the ubiquitous World Wide Web for business data exchange would require combining XML with business process models and a common message structure, translating the data exchanged among different industry vocabularies, and doing all of this economically, so that even the smallest enterprise could afford it.

Fortunately, a number of visionaries had seen the potential and limitations of XML and proposed ways of closing the gaps. This chapter discusses important technology initiatives that preceded ebXML, their influence on the ebXML specifications, the two organizations that founded the ebXML initiative, and the process used to develop the specifications.

These early examples also provided a preview of the process used by ebXML, in which hundreds of participants in a worldwide initiative collaborated in a successful complex technical project.



ebXML. The New Global Standard for Doing Business Over the Internet
ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet
ISBN: 0735711178
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 100

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