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An SOA built without Web services!

An SOA built without Web services!What in the article was "service oriented?"I'm trying to identify in the article where they mention anything that qualifies as "doing SOA." The article doesn't describe anything about the services, the interface they expose other than via JMS, the granularity of the services, etc. It...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Channel management, B2B, SOA, Web service, Web, ebXML

Discussion threads 2007-06-26

Moving beyond UDDI: is it time to consider ebXML?

Moving beyond UDDI: is it time to consider ebXML?New Registry spec not needed....Last year we experimented with UDDI as a registry technology and found it lacking when one moved to non-trivial service discovery scenarios. As one Boeing engineer in our community-of-interest put it when introducing a UDDI presentation slide "Ok,...

Tags: B2B, Web services, ebXML, UDDI

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Moving beyond UDDI: is it time to consider ebXML?

A reader, Farrukhnajmi, saw my recent post on IBMs bypass of the Universal Discovery, Description and Integration spec UDDI and posited this question: If we need a new registry spec, why not look to ebXML?"I agree with IBMs assessment that UDDI is inadequate for a SOA Registry and Repository. Most...

Tags: General, Standards Watch, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-05-01

IBM acknowledges bypassing UDDI; calls for new SOA registry standard

IBM acknowledges bypassing UDDI; calls for new SOA registry standardebXML Registry and Repository is a SOA Registry and Repository StandardI agree with IBM's assessment that UDDI is inadequate for a SOA Registry and Repository. Most importantly, it does not define a repository which is essential to SOA governance.However, I am...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, B2B, Repository Standard, ebXML Registry, ebXML, SOA Registry, SOA, UDDI, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

How much open source progress flies under your radar?

Some of what we know about open source plays out in public.But much else -- perhaps most of the progress -- flies under our radar. This is not because the people involved dont write about it. Its because most of us dont have time to read about it. Think about...

Tags: Applications, business models, Development, General, Implementations, Standards

Blog posts 2007-02-15

UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurity

UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurityebXML has a smaller ad spendand there's the slashdot bias they refuse to allow current eb posts but it's adoption rate is higher than reported: http://www.ebxmlforum.net/ ( hosted at webservices.org )http://ebxmlforum.blogspot.com/http://ebxml.org/http://www.freebxml.org/Speaking of SOA thingies starting with"U"Universal Data Element Framework ( I call...

Tags: B2B, Web services, Anne, ebXML, ebXML Registry, UDDI

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

OASIS releases ebXML Registry 3 draft

The OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee has voted to approve the ebXML Registry Version 3.0 specification as a "Committee Draft" andto advance the draft for public review in preparation for ballot as anOASIS Standard. According to OASIS, an ebXMLRegistry may be deployed within an application server, a Web server or...

Tags: B2B, Web services, OASIS, ebXML

Blog posts 2005-02-17

ebXML, revisited

ebXML, revisiteda good start would be a standard format for an order in xmlper order: our order number, our account code, delivery address/phone/email, our address/phone/email per row: part number, Description, quantitity This would be a great start, allowing MRP systems to output to a standard XML DTD, this could...

Tags: B2B, XML, Web services, ebXML

Discussion threads 2005-02-14

ebXML, revisited

Redmonk's James Governor alerted us to the potential of REST as a simpler alternative to SOAP see my previous post, and also shed the spotlight on another under-reported spec that could make life simpler: ebXML Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language.ebXML is a modular suite of specifications that provide a...

Tags: ebXML

Blog posts 2005-02-12

Cutting through Microsoft's latest FUD attack

Cutting through Microsoft's latest FUD attackPot, KettleMaybe I'm missing something, but it sure looks to me like MS is pointing at a mirror. After all, MS only supports one distribution of MSOffice, only one distribution of MSWindows, only one distribution of Halo, etc.Of course, the fact that they're still...

Tags: B2B, Linux, Web services, Operating systems, IBM Corp., FUD, ebXML, Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2005-01-31

Business Process Analysis Worksheets & Guidelines v1.0

The primary goal of the ebXML effort is to facilitate the integration of e-businesses throughout the world with each other. Towards this end much of the work in ebXML has focused on the notion of a public process: the business processes by which external entities interact with an e-business. The...

Tags: Business Process, Specification, Modeling, ebXML Community, ebXML, B2B, Operational Planning, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Business Operations

White papers 2001-05-10

Additional Resources

ebComposer UBL (zip)

ebComposer UBL is a software library for creating and parsing UBL 2.0 documents in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and COM/OLE containers (such as Dynamics NAV Navision and VB6). ebComposer UBL is fully schema compliant and reads and writes all 31 UBL 2.0 document. Documentation of all class hierarchy is...

Tags: UBL, Unimaze Software, ebComposer UBL

Software downloads 2007-11-14

The new healthcare beat at ZDNet blogs

The new healthcare beat at ZDNet blogsIt's a tough industry...... I think probably the delivery of healthcare is the most complex process around. Compare it to (e.g. ) banking. 99% of the time, maybe 2 or 3 people roles are involved directly with customers (discounting all the back-room...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Blogging, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Case studies in an open source world

Case studies in an open source worldTruth without FUD or lies...Successes and pitfalls. How things were overcome, why certain selections were made for one option over another. Real cost both short term investment and long term upkeep. ]:)Case studies from the ebXML worldat http://www.ebXML.org and http://www.freebXML.org

Tags: ebXML, B2B, Case Studies, open source world, open source

Discussion threads 2007-06-16

The consensus process and SOA

I appreciated the comment-swarm around last week's piece on consensus. But I am afraid many missed the key word in the headline.The word is mysterious. The way in which consensus works is opaque, even while its results are highly transparent. This is in contrast to the conflict process, with its press...

Tags: Network Standards/Protocols, Implementations, General, Enterprise Policy, Development, business models

Blog posts 2007-05-21

UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurity

Okay, UDDI, you can come out now. In a newly published interview, Burton Groups Anne Thomas Manes says the time may finally be ripe for the hapless UDDI spec (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) to emerge from the shadows of obscurity.Manes also had some disparaging words about a competing...

Tags: General, Standards Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, UDDI

Blog posts 2007-02-06

Where are the open source VARs?

Where are the open source VARs?Consumer Driven Health CareI work with/for a company called AmeriplanUSA who offers consumer driven health care. The benefits are for anyone! No limitations or paper work and it's not insurance. Ameriplan allows Those who are uninsured or underinsured to have health benefits at an affordable...

Tags: Retail, Channel management, Novell Inc., benefit, value-added reseller, open source, open source VAR

Discussion threads 2006-10-03

BEA: 'registry' no longer joined at the hip to 'repository'

BEA: 'registry' no longer joined at the hip to 'repository'How is this news?I thought people understood this back in the days of ebXML (1999-2000).Doesnt seem to get itThis is all true for Service Lifecycle, but not for policy, as I've been saying.http://www.infoq.com/news/BEA-Acquires-FlashlineMiko

Tags: ebXML, B2B, BEA Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

New push for SOA beyond enterprise walls

I had the opportunity to chat with John Senor, president of iWay Software a division of Information Builders, which announced the other week that it is offering an enterprise service bus and accompanying SOA-based integration tools. Senor outlined the three leading scenarios in which reusable business services are deployed: ...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, wall, SOA, B2B

Blog posts 2006-02-21

BEA Brings DF Young Closer to Its Customers

With more than a century of experience and success providing transportation and logistics solutions to international businesses, DF Young services Fortune 500 and small businesses alike. They saw an opportunity to differentiate itself by offering real-time, optimized supply chain management services to customers. The solution needed to provide complete aggregated...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Logistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software

Case studies 2006-01-01