In the WebLogic Integration environment, you use the B2B Console to configure your system to support the exchange of ebXML business messages between trading partners, and to design and manage ebXML business processes using workflows.

The ebXML protocol (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language) is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. It is sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS. To learn about ebXML, see http://www.ebXML.org.

This topic describes how to create a new ebXML control. Each ebXML control instance represents a single ebXML conversation. For each separate ebXML conversation in a business process, you must add a separate ebXML control instance. To learn about ebXML controls, see ebXML Control.

The Open ebXML Project have released tools supporting document generation for ebXML Business Process Analysis worksheets, and Finetix have released an open source tool for processing FpML, the financial products markup language.

The United Nations CEFACT and OASIS today announced that the core technical infrastructure of ebXML, the Electronic Business XML Initiative, nears completion and will be delivered in March 2001, two months ahead of schedule. The technical specifications for the transport, routing and packaging (TRP), trading partner agreements (TPA), and registry/repository (REG/REP) components of ebXML provide the required pieces to ensure interoperability based on XML standards for global business on the Internet.

The Webswell company launched new release of its open source ebXML integration framework Webswell Connect, version 1.1 Beta.

UN/CEFACT and OASIS have formally announced that they are to integrate the SOAP 1.1 and SOAP with Attachments specifications into the ebXML Messaging Specification.

This topic provides an introduction to implementing ebXML solutions with WebLogic Integration. It contains the following sections:

This section describes how you design and manage ebXML business processes using workflows, and it provides the steps you must take to start the exchange of ebXML business messages between trading partners. It includes the following topics:

The Center for E-commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID) of HKU's Department of Computer Science and Information Systems is supporting three pilot projects to demonstrate the feasibility and added values of ebXML applications. MTR Corporation (the subway operator of Hong Kong) and Saggio (Asia Pacific) Company (a leading office supplies vendor in Asia) are piloting the use of ebXML for the exchange of purchasing documents in automating transaction processing in office supplies procurement.

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the basis of the "next big thing" - a way to connect millions of pockets of information via the Internet so that the next generation of Internet software applications can seamlessly work together.

ebXML began in the fall of 1999 as effort by UN/CEFACT and OASIS to initiate a worldwide project to enable the consistent use of XML for the exchange of all electronic business data.

The ebXML Requirements Specification was approved at the May 2000 ebXML Work Group Meeting. Our current work plan is to produce an updated version to be approved at the May meeting. The updates include primarily include new requirements, such as the trading partner related requirements, identified since version 1.0 was approved. It includes further detail, clarification, or corrections so that the requirements and other delivered specifications form a consistent whole.

ebXML is a set of specifications that together enable a modular electronic business framework. The vision of ebXML is to enable a global electronic marketplace where enterprises of any size and in any geographical location can meet and conduct business with each other through the exchange of XML based messages. ebXML is a joint initiative of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and OASIS, developed with global participation for global usage.

ebXML (electronic business eXtensible Mark-up Language) is a joint initiative by the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The ebXML initiative provides the specifications for doing electronic business based on XML technology. The specifications of the initiative reached version 1.0 in May 2001 after 18 months of work. All documents (specifications, reports and white papers) can be downloaded from the web site of ebXML at http://www.ebxml.org. Further there are active mailing lists and archives of those mailing lists available at their site.

A communiqué from Farrukh Najmi (Sun Microsystems) describes a new production-ready release of ebXML Registry software from the OASIS ebXML Registry Reference Implementation Project (ebxmlrr). As part of the freebXML Initiative, the ebxmlrr project is chartered to deliver a "royalty free, open source, functionally complete reference implementation for the OASIS ebXML Registry specifications as defined by the OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee."

The OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee has voted to approve the latest versions of its OASIS/ebXML Registry Services Specification v2.5 and OASIS/ebXML Registry Information Model v2.5 as Committee Specifications. The ebXML Registry "provides a set of services that enable sharing of information between interested parties for the purpose of enabling business process integration between such parties based on the ebXML specifications.

You use ebXML controls in initiator business processes to exchange ebXML business messages with participants. The ebXML control provides methods for sending and receiving business messages, as described in ebXML Control Interface. Callbacks handle ebXML messages, acknowledgements, and errors received from the participant.

2000-Members of the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) announced plans to use ebXML as the backbone of their new data exchange standard for business-to-business trade in the consumer goods industry. ebXML, an initiative of the United Nations CEFACT and OASIS, will provide the technical infrastructure for the Global Commerce Internet Protocol, a set of recommendations governing the management of data for Internet communication and other B2B interactions. GCI members include 40 major manufacturers and retailers as well as eight trade associations, which in total represent 850,000 companies around the world. Exchanges such as Transora, the WorldWide Retail Exchange, GlobalNetXchange, and CPGmarket.com are taking active roles in the GCI development.

A recent announcement from UN/CEFACT and OASIS reports that "all ebXML specifications have been submitted to the ebXML initiative's quality review process. These specifications are the result of more than a year's work by organizations and standards bodies around the world, which have come together to advance a common framework for global electronic business.