Electronic Business Middleware

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Electronic Business Middleware

• Ching-Long Yeh ???
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Tatung University

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Evolution of Web Technology
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WWW
Information Pool
Application
Client
Web server
URL
HTML Document
HTTP

• HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol)
• HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

• Human-to-machine interaction
• Information explosion

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Interaction Using XML
Information Pool
Information Pool
Application
Application
SOAP server
SOAP server
XML Document
XML Document
HTTP

• XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

• Machine-to-machine interaction
• Service automation

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Web Service Architecture
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AP-2-AP Business Interactions

• RosettaNet
• Partner Interface Processes, PIPTM
• RosettaNet Implementation Framework, RNIF
• A domain-specific EB framework

Company B
Company A
Backend Application
Backend Application
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View of Private and Public Processes
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ebXML A Generic EB Framework
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Phases in the Use of the ebXML Framework
The implementation phase
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Phases in the Use of the ebXML Framework
The discovery phase
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Phases in the Use of the ebXML Framework
The runtime phase
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System Architecture of ebXML
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An Implementation of ebXML
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XML Technology Course in TTU

• XML Fundamentals
• DTD
• Namespaces
• Schema 
• DOM 
• XSLT
• XLink and XPointer
• The XML Business Perspective 
• SOAP  
• WSDL  
• XML and EB Rosettanet 
• XML and EB ebXML 
• Semantic Web 
• Ontology Basics 
• Semantic Web Languages 

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Conclusions

• Adding EB value to middleware
• Business level interpretation of business
  processes
• Message service level SOAP with security and
  reliability
• Requirements of Taiwan EB

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