ABSTRACT
Standardization of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce ....................... 534 Banking Applications ................................................................................ 535 Aeronautical Applications ........................................................................ 535 Applications in the Automotive Industry .................................................. 536 Miscellaneous Examples .......................................................................... 537
Standardization, Then and Now ......................................................................... 537 X12 and EDIFACT ............................................................................................ 538
Security ..................................................................................................... 538 EDI Security with Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ............................................... 539 Integration of XML and Traditional EDI ........................................................... 540
EDI/XML Translation/Encapsulation ....................................................... 540 XML Expressions of EDI ......................................................................... 541
XML Common Business Library ................................................. 541 Universal Business Language ....................................................... 541
RosettaNet ................................................................................................. 542 New Architectures for Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce ................. 542 Electronic Business (Using) XML ..................................................................... 544
Architecture of ebXML ............................................................................ 545 Business Scenarios ........................................................................ 545 Core Components ......................................................................... 545 Registry and Repository ................................................................ 548 Collaboration Protocol Profi le and Agreement ............................. 548 Message Service Specifi cation ..................................................... 548
ebXML Operations ................................................................................... 550 Web Services ...................................................................................................... 552
Web Services Standards ............................................................................ 553 Web Services Description Language ........................................................ 553 Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration ................................... 554
Simple Object Access Protocol ................................................................. 555 Security ..................................................................................................... 555 Standardization ......................................................................................... 556
Financial Dialects of XML ................................................................................ 558 Summary ............................................................................................................ 559 Acknowledgments .............................................................................................. 559 References ............................................................................................................ 560
The electronic fl ow of commercial data was a direct consequence of the computerization of businesses as a way to increase operational effi ciencies through automation. More recently, the adoption of the Internet in commercial applications has generated new types of exchanges, especially in the fragmented markets of small and medium enterprises.
