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ebXML Architectures - Case Studies from Sun

Abstract

This presentation is targeted for developers and users of ebXML with the goal of explaining the benefits of applying ebXML technologies to build extended Web services infrastructures. The presentation will address the architectures for integrating collaborative business partners across the Internet in an efficient, reliable, and secure manner.

This will be accomplished by reviewing case studies from full ebXML implementations including detailed reviews of projects at Sabre and General Motors. Among these case studies, each module of the ebXML framework will be reviewed including the ebMS messaging, CPP/A trading partner agreements, RegRep repository, and BPSS business process collaborations.

In addition to the discussions on how to architect the ebXML modules to build a collaborative infrastructure, this presentation will also discuss how to integrate the ebXML architecture into an existing corporate infrastructure and discuss the realities of interoperability. Through the case study examples, integration with enterprise J2EE architectures and basic web services architectures using ebXML will be described. In addition to architectural integration, the value of ebXML's messaging interoperability will be discussed.

The overall message will be to highlight the facts around ebXML implementations, describe how to architect these solutions, how to integrate them into existing infrastructures, but most importantly show how the technology can and is being used today to enable reliable, secure, collaborative B2B Web services solutions.

Keywords

»BPSS, »CPP/A, »EbMS, »EbXML.

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Biography

Michael Wheaton is an Enterprise Architect with Sun Microsystems specializing in the architecture, design and implementation of enterprise software solutions for key global clients. Mike mentors corporations on leading edge technologies and the process of integrating these technologies into existing corporate infrastructures. Over the past five years, Mike has guided corporations though the evolution of JAVA, J2EE, Web Services, and one of the industry's first complete ebXML implementations. Prior to joining Sun, Mike worked at Raytheon, IBM, and an internet startup.

Dan Malks is a Principal Engineer with Sun Microsystems and author of Prentice Hall's top selling Java title last year, "Core J2EE Patterns". Dangraduated with a MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.Dan focuses on helping Sun's top customers build strategic infrastructure for their Enterprise and Web Service solutions and capturing reusable solutions as patterns. Dan has published numerous articles and books on Java and Patterns and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including JavaOne and SunNetwork.