Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

Creating a Single
Global Electronic
Market With

ebXML
Klaus-Dieter Naujok, ebXML Chair
Netfish Technologies Inc, Chief Technology Officer

Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

ebXML enables anyone,

anywhere
to do business with
anyone else
over the Internet

Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

A global electronic market

where enterprises of any size, anywhere can:
Find each other electronically
Conduct business through the exchange of
XML based messages

using standard message structures

according to standard business process sequences
with clear business semantics
according to standard or mutually agreed trading
partner agreements

Using off the shelf purchased business

applications

Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

ebXML Characteristics

Participation is free and open to anyone, anywhere

Complement, not compete

EDIFACT, X12,
protect existing infrastructure investment
extend-and-embrace versus rip-and-replace

Focus on needs of SME

easy, low cost, rapid development & deployment
plug and play shrink wrapped solutions
built on open, available, proven standards

Modular and inclusive

implement what applies to you

Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

Main ebXML concepts

Business Processes Defined as models, Expressed in

XML

Business Messages Expressed in XML

Trading Partner Agreement Specifies parameters for

businesses to interface with each other Expressed in
XML

Business Service Interface Implements Trading

Partner Agreement Expressed in XML

Transport and Routing Layer Moves the actual XML

data between trading partners

Registry/Repository - Provides a container for process

models, vocabularies, and partner profiles.

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Open-edi Reference Model

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ISO/IEC 14662

Business Operational View

Business aspects
of
business transactions
Viewed
as

Semantic Web
Comply with
Covered by

Functional Service View

Information technology
aspects of
business transactions

BOV RELATED
STANDARDS

Web Services
Comply with

Covered by

FSV RELATED
STANDARDS

Business View
Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

Lexicon
Business Knowledge

Requirements Artifacts

Build

Library

Core Components &

Core Processes

Business Objects &

Business Processes

Analysis Artifacts

Design Artifacts

Activity Diagrams

Collaboration Diagrams

Sequence Diagrams

State Diagrams

Conceptual Class
Diagrams

Final Class
Diagrams

Use Cases Diagrams

Use Cases Description

Business Process and Information Models

Functional View
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Business Process and Information Models

UML to XML conversion
Retrieval of new or updated
ebXML Models

Registration
Retrieval of new or updated
ebXML Models

Repository

Retrieval of ebXML
Specifications & Models

Internal
Business App

Build

Implementers

Build

Shrink-wrap
Application

TPA
Business
Message

BSI
Interface

ebXML Transport

BSI
Interface

Business
Message

Runtime

RepositoryServices

Design
Time

RegistryServices

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ebXML High Level Architecture

Business Process and Information Modeling
Business
Process Model

Register/
Retrieve

Information
Model

Specification
Interface Modeling
TPP

TPA

Specification

Interface Implementation and interaction

BSI

Message
Service

Transport

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ebXML Architecture
Business Process
Models

Enables

Business Content
Technical Content

Message

Defines
Feeds

Uses
Business
Process

Sends &
Receives

Core
Component
Library

Schemata

Interface

Supports
Uses

Codes, Elements
Provides
Access
To

Populate
Defines

Registry
ebXML
Meta
Model

Distributed
Repository

Process
Services

Services

Metadata model to
XML Transformation
Rules

Network Economy

Common
Technical
Architecture
Security

Transport

ebXML Architecture
Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

BP
Business Process
Models

Feeds

Uses
Business
Process

BP

Enables

CC

Business Content
Technical Content

Message

Defines

Sends &
Receives

Core
Component
Library

Services

RR

TRP

Interface

Metadata model to
XML Transformation
Rules

Supports
Uses

Network Economy
Process
Services
Schemata
Codes, Elements

Provides
Access
To

Populate
Defines

RR
BP

ebXML
Meta
Model

TP

Registry
Distributed
Repository

TP

Common
Technical
Architecture
Security

Transport

TRP

TRP

Transport and Routing

Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

Message

Service Specification
Packaging Specification
ebXML SOAP Extensions
Message Service Handler
Services
Reliable Messaging
Error Handling
Security

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Communication Protocol (SMTP, HTTP, etc.)

MIME multipart/related
SOAP Envelope
SOAP Header
eb:MessageHeader
eb:TraceRoute
ds:Signature
/SOAP Header
SOAP Body
eb:Manifest
eb:StatusData
eb:ErrorList
SOAP-Env:SoapFault
/SOAP-Env:SoapFault
eb:Acknowledgements
/SOAP Body
Payload
Payload

Registry and Repository

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Registry Information
Model
Based heavily on
ANSI ASC X3.285
Submission to ISO
11179

Key concepts
Classification
Scheme support
Managed Objects
Storage of anything

Flexible associations
Subscription to
managed objects (in
progress)

Registry Services
Life cycle management
Query
Library Control System
Transformation
Workflow

Logging
Subscription
Publish

Interface Discovery
Service
Quality Assurance
Service

Architecture Interactions
Service

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Interface
Enterprise

Integration

Systems

System

Behavior

Transport,
Routing &
Packaging

Messaging
2

System

Message
Formats

Business
Documents
Repository
Internet

Core
Component
Library
Business
Rules

Core
Components

Business
Process
Modeling

Messaging
System

Document
Choreography

Policy

Registry &
Repository
Policy

Trading Partner Profile

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Collaboration-Protocol Profile and Agreement

Specification
Collaboration Protocol Profile (CPP)

Describes party's IT capabilities

Communication protocols
Security requirements
Business processes it supports

Collaboration Protocol Agreement (CPA)

Agreed IT capabilities
Business process to be performed
Definition of business transactions, transition rules, etc.

CPA is intersection of two parties' CPPs plus

results of negotiating variable parameters

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Main sections of CPP & CPA

Party identification

Transport

Protocol, encoding, timeout, security, etc.

Document exchange

Messaging protocol, security, etc.

Collaboration protcol

Business transaction definitions

Derived from business process

metamodel

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CPP/CPA Summary
What Parties WILL do

CPA
Intersection,
negotiation

Party 1
CPP

Party 2
CPP

What Parties CAN do

Business Process
Business Process Specification
Schema
Business Process and Business
Information Analysis Overview
Business Process Analysis
Worksheets & Guidelines
E-Commerce and Simple Negotiation
Patterns
Catalog of Common Business
Processes

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Business Process
Business
Process

...

Create Long Term Contract

Business
Process

Collaboration
Transaction

Forecast Component
Requirements

Send Planning Document

Transaction

...

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Business Process:
Conceptual Model

Customer

Supplier

Place Order

Collaboration
Ship Materials

Arrange Payment

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Overview: ebXML
Specification Schema
Business Process
Process Composition

Partner Types

Business Collaboration

Choreography

Transition

Guard

Request Document
Roles

Business Transaction

Response Document

Business Transaction Execution Patterns

Core Components
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The role of context in the reusability of CC

& BP
Methodology for discovery & analysis of
CC
Naming conventions for CC & BP
Specification for the application of XML
based assembly and context rules
The Initial Catalog of Core Components
Core Component and Business Process
Document Overview

Overview of CC Scope
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generic
UML Context
Model

Core
Component
Library

UML Core
Component
Model

Context

Context Rules
Engine
Context Rules

UML Context
Rules Model

Context
constrained
information entity

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Other ebXML Delieverables

ebXML Requirements Specification v1-0

(approved at the Brussels meeting 12
May 2000)

ebXML Technical Architecture

specification v1.04 (approved by the
Vancouver plenary, 16 February 2001)

ebXML Technical Architecture Risk

Assessment

Formal ebXML Presentation

ebXML White Paper

CC = Core Components
BP = Business Process

Creating a Single Global Electronic Market

CC

BP
Define

Trading Partner Profile

Registry & Repository

Transport and Routing

Implement

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Andrews World aligned with ebXML

ebXML Message Services
Reliability
Security
Routing

Attachments

ebXML
BP/CC/TP
(+UMM)

ebXML
R&R/TP
(+UDDI)

Process
Flow
Patterns

Envelope and

Service

Extensibility

Descriptions

(SOAP)

Structure

Directory
Inspection

Syntax (XML)

Wire

Description

Discovery

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