Mike,
Architecting open and flexible ebXML B2B messaging solutions should be
left to forums like JCP, who are and will define standard API and SPI's .
Besides you are right, we should learn to walk first before we try to run.
Regards
Dipan Anarkat
Uniform Code Council, Inc.
Tel: (609)-620-4509
http://www.uc-council.org/
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Rawlins [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:39 AM
To: Anarkat, Dipan
Cc: 'Martin W Sachs'; Pae Choi; Stefano POGLIANI;
Subject: RE: [ebxml-dev] ebXML specifications interdendancies
At Wednesday, 05 December 2001, "Anarkat, Dipan" <DAnarkat@uc-council.
org> wrote:
>Pae Choi,
> I see a vendor lockdown over here. If my company and the trading
partners
>are using ebXML for everything then I need to find a vendor whose
ebXML B2B
>app supports all the modules on the ebXML stack . Since there are no
>standard interfaces defined b/w an :
> #ebMS handler and an ebCPA handler
> #ebCPA handler and an ebCPP handler
> #ebCPP handler and an ebRR
> #ebCPA handler and an ebBPSS handler
> #etc.
>
>how can I probably get a best-of-the breed solution from the market
? Maybe
>JAVA may help here to define standard interfaces for communcation b/w
>different ebXML handlers.
>Any comments ?
<flame>
Since you asked for comments: Oh boy, now we have yet *another*
set of stuff to standardize! If this approach is taken we really
are just moving complexity around, and not eliminating it. I predict
that if this approach is taken, somewhere up at the next level in
the stack we'll find something else to standardize. ;^)
</flame>
At this point in time comprehensive packages from a single vendors
make much more sense that trying to fully modularize (a la "plug
and play") the architecture. However, I do note that some of the
interfaces you list above might consist of passing only a file or
a few parameters (such as ebCPA handler and ebBPSS handler), and
others may not necessarily have any interfaces (such as between ebCPA
handler and ebCPP handler). So, a certain degree of modularity may
be achievable without too much effort.
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Mike Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
www.rawlinsecconsulting.com
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