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Standards and XMLResources

Reference Section

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Copyright © 2002 by Corvelle Management Consultants

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BizTalk

BizTalk is an industry initiative started by Microsoft and supported by a wide range of organizations.

BizTalk is not a standards body, but a community of standards users, with the goal of driving the rapid, consistent adoption of XML to enable electronic commerce and application integration.

BizTalk is defining the BizTalk Framework™, a set of guidelines for how to publish schemas in XML and how to use XML messages to easily integrate software programs together in order to build rich new solutions.

Further reference at BizTalk: – www.biztalk.org

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Commerce Extensible Markup Language cXML

Commerce XML (cXML) is an open Internet-based standard for e-commerce. cXML provides an infrastructure that will streamline the process of digitally exchanging catalog content and transactions in a secure manner.

cXML supports all supplier content and catalog models, including buyer-managed, supplier-managed, content management services, electronic marketplaces, and web-based sourcing organizations.

cXML is based on the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) XML standard with its associated request/response processes.

Further reference at Ariba:– www.ariba.com

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Common Business LanguagexCBL

xCBL is the result of extensive collaboration between Commerce One and the leading XML standards bodies, e-commerce enterprises, and hardware and software vendors, as well as analysis of existing e-commerce standards including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), RosettaNet, and Open Buying on the Internet (OBI).

Industry leaders Compaq, Microsoft, SAPMarkets, and Sun Microsystems are leveraging xCBL 3.0 as a key standard in the development and delivery of business-to-business solutions.

Further reference at xCBL:– www.xcbl.org/index.html

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Electronic Business XMLebXML

The United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) have joined forces to initiate a worldwide project to standardize XML business specifications.

UN/CEFACT and OASIS have established the Electronic Business XML initiative to develop a technical framework that will enable XML to be utilized in a consistent manner for the exchange of all electronic business data.

A primary objective of ebXML is to lower the barrier of entry to electronic business in order to facilitate trade, particularly with respect to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developing nations.

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ebXMLReferences

Further reference at the Electronic Business XML:– www.ebxml.org/geninfo.htm#what

Accredited Standards Committee X12 - EDI– www.x12.org

UN/EDIFACT Working Group– www.edifact-wg.org

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Open Applications Group

The Open Applications Group is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process based XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration.

It is the largest publisher of XML based content for business software interoperability in the world.

Open Applications Group, Inc. members have:– extensive experience in building this industry consensus based

framework for business software application interoperability

– have developed a repeatable process for quickly developing high quality business content and XML representations of that content.

Further reference at:– www.openapplications.org

Open Applications Group

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Open Buying on the InternetOBI

The OBI™ standard is an open, flexible framework for business-to-business Internet commerce solutions.

The initial focus of OBI is on automating the high-volume, low-dollar transactions between trading partners that account for 80% of most organizations’ purchasing activities.

Further reference at the OBI Consortium:

– www.openbuy.org/obi/specs/

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Rosettanet

RosettaNet is building a master dictionary to define properties for products, partners, and business transactions for the Electronic Components (EC) and Information Technology (IT) industries.

This master dictionary, coupled with an established implementation framework (exchange protocols), is used to support the eBusiness dialog known as the Partner Interface Process or PIP.

RosettaNet PIPs create new areas of alignment within the overall EC and IT supply-chains, allowing EC and IT partners to scale eBusiness, and to fully leverage Ecom applications and the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool.

Further reference at RosettaNet:– www.rosettanet.org/general/index_general.html

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Universal Business LanguageUBL

Avert a crisis in electronic business caused by competing XML business-to-business document standards.

Create a new "Universal Business Language" that will be a synthesis of existing XML business document libraries.

Begin with xCBL 3.0 as the starting point.

Develop the standard UBL library by mutually agreed-upon changes to xCBL 3.0 based on industry experience with other XML business libraries and with similar technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange.

Universal Business Language, backed by technology vendors SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Commerce One Inc.

– www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

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Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard

The UDDI standard creates a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet.

The UDDI standard takes advantage of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards.

The UDDI standard is the building block that will enable businesses to quickly, easily and dynamically find and transact with one another using their preferred applications.

Further reference at UDDI:– www.uddi.org/about.html

– uddi.microsoft.com/default.aspx Huge vendor member list

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Business Internet ConsortiumBIC

The Business Internet Consortium will help to accelerate the adoption and deployment of next generation e-Business solutions by:

– providing a forum for customer input

– forming workgroups to tackle critical issues

– recommending architectural direction

– providing standards and technology recommendations

– proposing best practices

Further reference at BIC: – www.businessinternetconsortium.org

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Business Process ManagementInitiative (BPMI)

BPMI is a non-profit organization that empowers companies to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet.

The Initiative's mission is to promote and develop the use of Business Process Management (BPM) through the establishment of standards for process design, deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization.

BPMI.org develops open specifications, assists IT vendors for marketing their implementations, and supports businesses for using Business Process Management technologies.

Further reference at BPMI:

– www.bpmi.org/index.esp

Huge vendor & consultantmember list

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Global Commerce InitiativeGCI

Improve the performance of the international supply chain for consumer goods through the collaborative development and endorsement of recommended standards and key business processes.

Facilitate and encourage the best possible input on business processes and standards so existing standards bodies can work internationally with confidence.

Further reference at GCI:– www.globalcommerceinitiative.org

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XMLResource Sites - 1

BizTalk– www.biztalk.org/BizTalk/default.asp

Oracle Technology Network– otn.oracle.com

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards - OASIS

– www.oasis-open.org

PPDM Association– www.ppdm.org

POSC - XML Patterns and Objects– www.posc.org/ebiz

– www.posc.org/ebiz/pefxml/patternsobjects.html

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XMLResource Sites - 2

ServerSide– www.theserverside.com

World Wide Web Consortium– www.w3.org/XML

XML.COM– www.xml.com

XML.ORG– www.xml.org

XML:DB Initiative– www.xmldb.org

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XMLResource Sites - 3

XML Magazine– www.xmlmag.com

XML One Conference– www.xmlconference.com/xmlusa

XMLIS– www.xmlis.com

XML Technologies - XML schema tutorial– www.xfront.com

XML World

– www.xmlworld.com

xFront.com

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XMLBibliography

Microsoft - A Beginner's Guide to the XML DOM– msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?

contentid=28000438

What is XML?– www.gca.org/whats_xml/default.htm– www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5957/xml.html

XML and the Second-Generation Web– by Jon Bosak and Tim Bray – www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html

XML in 10 points– www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points

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XML Software Web URLs - 1

InfoGlide - XML Similarity Engine– www.infoglide.com/market.html

Iona - iPortal XMLBus

– www.iona.com

Microsoft - BizTalk Server– www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/features/default.asp

Oracle - Jdeveloper– technet.oracle.com/products/jdev/content.html

Open EB XML - ebXML GUI workbench – www.openebxml.org

Republica - X-Fetch Suite – www.x-fetch.com

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XML Software Web URLs - 2

Sequoia Software - XPS - XML-powered e-business portal software

– www.sequoiasoftware.com

Software AG - Tamino XML Platform– www.softwareag.com

Xcelerate– www.xcelerate.com

XML Solutions - EDI to XML translator– acquired by Vitria Technology– www.xmls.com

XML Global– www.xmlglobal.com

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Components ofBrowser Compatibility - 1

HTML 4 - HyperText Markup Language– defines the structure and layout of web documents using a variety of

tags and attributes

– <BODY> many tags and attributes </BODY>

– version 4 makes changes to elements, Tables and Forms

– www.w3.org

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet– style sheets contain values for parameters that define layout of a page

– cascading refers to the fact that several style sheets can be applied to web document in a pre-defined sequence

– can be used with HTML unlike XSL

– www.w3.org/Style/CSS

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Components ofBrowser Compatibility - 2

ECMAScript– ECMA - Standardizing Information and Communication

Systems

– dynamic scripting language standard

– closely related to JavaScript

– www.ecma.ch

DOM - Document Object Model– standard API for manipulating content, structure and style of

documents

– www.w3.org/DOM

– www.oasis-open.org/cover/dom.htmlThe Web Standards Project

www.webstandards.org