Product definition

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Product definition
E-Biz central is a technology platform aimed at
Software developer community, and is used to
build deploy Internet based Open Business
Applications. E-Biz central is not a domain
specific platform, rather it provides a
comprehensive and solid technology platform for
building robust domain specific applications,
which are tightly integrated in a loosely coupled
environment like Internet. With its rich and
robust platform independent technology features,
it can tremendously cut down on the development
costs and time and allows the software developers
to build Agile Collaborative business
applications.
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Collaborative Business Scenario
Supplier Co (Ex. Tyres Manufacturer)
SAP
Windows-NT/2000
Open Business Application
Supplier Co (Ex. Steel Manufacturer)
Bank Co
Manufacturing Co. (Ex. Car Manufacturer)
Banks2000
ORACLE
Any ERP/ Custom Applicaiton
Windows-NT
UNIX
Insurance Co
Branch - n
C/Java
Visual Basic
UNIX/Windows/Solaris/Linux
Solaris
Windows-98/XP
Call Center Co
SIEBEL
Windows-NT/2000
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Technical challenges in Collaborative e-Business
Application development

• Business operation exposing invocation
• Business document exposing generation
• Caller Application Identity
• Caller Application Authorization
• User Identity
• User Authorization
• Access Control
• Single Sign On support
• Data transmission security
• Distributed Platform-Independent business
  transactions
• Platform Language Independent API
• Compatibility with SOAP, XML-RPC other HTTP
  based Remote business operation Invocation
  protocols
• Business Logic implementation issues

• Multi threaded business operations
• Synchronizing business operations
• Delayed/Queued business operations
• Delayed dependent business operations
• Representation Neutral Dynamic front-end
• screens

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E-Biz Central Technical Architecture Overview
E-Biz Central Developer Studio
developer
ARRP Server

• ARRP-TCP/IP

Transaction Manager
Organization Manager
User Manager
AFT eBEX
End User
Web Browser

• HTTP

Business logic
e-Biz Central platform
Action handler
Web Server
Document Manager
Developer Manager
Site Manager

• ARRP-TCP/IP

E-Biz Web request listener

• ASP
• CGI
• ISAPI

Trust Relation Manager
E-Biz Engine
Action Manager
Ebiz central Object store
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Collaborative e-Business Applications using E-Biz
Central
Supplier Co - Tyres
e-Biz Central
SAP
Buyer Co - Cars
ARRP TCP/IP XML
Any ERP/ Custom Applicaiton
e-Biz Central
ARRP TCP/IP XML
Supplier Co - Steel
ORACLE
Internet/ Intranet
e-Biz Central
Buyer Co Branch1
PeopleSoft
Web Server
ARRP TCP/IP XML
e-Biz Central
HTTP XML
Buyer Co - Dealer1
VisualBasic
ARRP TCP/IP XML
Web Browser
e-Business Explorer
C/VB/Java
ARRP Client
Single Sign On Process
Developer
End-User Or Customer
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E-Biz Central Technology features
Main Technology Features

• ARRP (Action Request Response
• Protocol)
• e-Biz XML-API
• e-Biz XML Server Pages
• Distributed Transaction Protocol
• Multi level Trust Relation technology
• Single Sign On process
• Business Operation technologies

Business Operation technologies

• Multiple Action Types
• Immediate Actions
• Deferred Independent Actions
• Deferred Dependent Actions
• Scheduled Actions
• Chained Actions
• Other technology features
• Action result caching
• Multiple URL routing for a
• single Action
• Session Management
• Call Context Management
• Remote development features

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ARRP
Action Request Response Protocol is an efficient
and reliable Application-level client/server
based request/response protocol. This protocol
can be used by Software-developers for creating
robust cross-platform and cross-language
distributed applications. Currently
implementations of ARRP server and ARRP client 
re available in various programming
languages. Alpha versions of ARRP Server Client
support programming languages like C, Microsoft
Visual Basic, Java, CLR based languages of
Microsoft .Net framework and for C C
programmers on HP-UNIX,LINUX SUN SOLARIS.
Application - 1
Application - 2
C/Java/Visual Basic
Business function/component
Callback function
TCP/IP XML
ARRP Server
ARRP Client
ARRP provides a simple elegant solution for
cross-platform cross-language invocation of
application functionality. It provide Universal
access to your applications functionality using
well defined and well-stabilized Internet
protocol, TCP/IP and widely accepted universal
data format, XML. ARRP uses a technique called
call-back mechanism for invoking an application
defined function, when ever it receives a request
from any application using ARRP Client software.
ARRP can invoke functions in programs written in
C, Java, and Visual Basic. This is possible
because ARRP Server (64kb in size) can be
embedded within an application and runs parallely
on separate threads along with your application
without disturbing it.
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e-Biz XML-API
XML-API is a technology that allows an
application built on e-Biz Central to expose
share its functionality with other applications
thru any Network supporting TCP/IP (like
Internet, Intranet, etc). The functionality
exposed thru XML-API can be accessible from any
platform any programming language supported by
ARRP protocol. Software service  product
developers can use this technology to allow easy
integration of their solutions and/or products
with other software applications running on same
or desperate platforms. Developers can even
integrate applications built on desperate
programming languages technologies. For example
if an ERP product development company needs to
expose the functionality of their product to
other ERP products like SAP,ORACLE, etc and to
any other custom software applications, they can
do so easily using e-Biz Central XML-API
technology without disturbing the architecture or
code of their existing product. In business
applications, the XML-API technology will be
extremely useful and efficient in allowing the
applications built on e-Biz Central to
participate in Collaborative e-Business
processes. e-Biz Central provides built in
support for invoking the business operation
exposed thru XML-API from non-ARRP client
applications that use SOAP protocol. e-Biz
Central can also convert a SOAP based Web-Service
into e-Biz Central business operations, thus
allowing the developers to use SOAP based
Web-Services as if they were e-Biz Central native
business operations.
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e-Biz XML Server Pages

• e-Biz central XML Server Pages (e-Biz XSP) is a
  technology for creating dynamic front-end
  screens/ documents using e-Biz Central XML-API.
• Using e-Biz Central XSP, developers can create
  front-ends documents at runtime based on certain
  business operations. In e-Biz Central a Document
  forms the User interface between an End-User and
  the application built on e-Biz Central. In real
  world scenarios most of the information that
  forms the User interface is generated at runtime
  by executing a business operation. e-Biz Central
  allows developers to attach a list of business
  operations to a document, and it will execute
  them whenever the document is being generated.
• The entire process of creating dynamic elements
  of information User Interface is thru issuing
  simple XML based queries to the e-Biz Central
  runtime using ARRP from any programming language
  preferred by the developer supported by the
  ARRP protocol. Thus the name e-Biz Central XML
  Server Pages.
• key advantages of using e-Biz Central XSP
• The technical process of generating the documents
  during run-time is not dependent on a particular
  Web-Server or a particular Platform.
• Developers can use the programming language of
  their choice including C/C rather than limiting
  them selves to scripting languages. Using native
  programming languages like Java, C, C VB will
  allow developers to take advantage of efficient
  OS features like Multi-threading to generate the
  different parts of the document parallely.
• The documents generated using e-Biz Central XSP
  are representation neutral. It means once the
  developer generates a document dynamically in
  e-Biz Central, it is the task of e-Biz Central to
  convert it into an HTML document or Platform
  dependent GUI document or XML document or any
  other possible front-end representations
  supported by e-Biz Central run-time.

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Distributed Transaction Protocol
e-Biz Central Transactions are fundamentally
different from that of the traditional
Transaction processing monitors (TPMs).
Traditional Transaction processing monitors (TPM)
provides a runtime environment for the business
operations to operate under Transactions spanning
multiple data sources. These TPMs requires the
business logic to implement certain interfaces
and the data sources to implement certain
Transaction protocols like (XA-Transaction
protocol, OLE-Transaction protocol, etc.). And
further the Physical Transactions are created and
maintained by the data source, but not the TPM.
In e-Biz Central a Transaction doesnt
represent a Transaction instance of any data
source, rather it is a group of Voter business
operations, which are logically related, and are
defined using e-Biz Central Actions with a
corresponding set of Commit/Abort Actions for
each Voter Action. e-Biz Central creates,
executes, and maintains the Transactions. The
business logic need not implement any special
interfaces to participate in the Transaction, and
also the data sources, which are used inside the
business logic, need not implement any
Transaction protocols. e-Biz Central guarantees
the completion (commit or abort) of a Transaction
even in the event of system failures.
e-Biz Central For Application-1
e-Biz Central For Application-2
Application - 1
Application - 2
Business function/component
Business function/component
Cross Platform Transaction Server
Windows/UNIX/SOLARIS/LINUX
Windows/UNIX/SOLARIS/LINUX
TCP/IP XML
TCP/IP XML
TCP/IP XML
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Multi level Trust Relation technology
e-Biz central Multi-level Trust Relation
technology allows an application built on e-Biz
Central to expose share its functionality with
one or more applications built on e-Biz Central
in a trusted manner. e-Biz Central
applications can allow non e-Biz Central
applications to access their functionality using
ARRP, but the accessing application cannot be
Authenticated.  In practical real world
scenarios, if a business organization is exposing
its critical business operations to the outside
applications, it needs to identify, Authenticate
Authorize the calling application before
accepting the request for business operation
execution. And, since the calling application can
be running on a different platform from that of
the exposed application, it is difficult to built
in cross-platform application identification
authorization techniques. It requires significant
amount of time cost to build such technologies
into an application, and moreover the developers
has to build these technologies from case to
case. e-Biz Central Multi-level Trust Relation
technology allows developers to expose and share
different objects of the e-Biz Central
applications including active business documents,
business operations, business components
(logically related group of business operations),
User Groups Users, with the other e-Biz Central
applications in a trusted manner.
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Single Sign-On Process
Single Sign-On Process allows the End-User of an
Application built on e-Biz Central, to access the
business objects of one or more Applications
built on e-Biz Central by logging in only once
into his own application. This technology
eliminates the need for producing User
credentials like User-Id Password for each and
every process/application involved in a
collaborative e-business process. Single Sign-On
process also shields the user from the Network of
Underlying business processes involved in a
transaction thus giving a more unified view of
the business processes. Single Sign-On process
in e-Biz Central uses Distributed Authentication
technology to allow an End-User, access to
resources of networked business processes using
Single login. Business processes are not required
to share their Users credentials like User-Id
Password with other business processes involved
in collaborative e-business process. Rather e-Biz
Central Run-times of the Collaborative e-Business
processes will co-ordinate with each other to
give access to the networked resources for
end-user using single login.
Buyer Application
Supplier Application
Bank Application
Main Order List document
Sub Order status document
Account Information
E-Biz Central
E-Biz Central
E-Biz Central
Buyer Application
B
A
Login document
End-User Or Customer
E-Biz Central
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Business Operation technologies
e-Biz central Business Operation technologies
provide a platform programming language
independent implementation of core technologies
required by Software developers to build roust,
reliable scalable business applications. These
technologies are broadly classified into four
categories Threading Synchronization Queuing B
usiness Operation Persistence Threading allows
an application to scale to higher loads and
utilize the resources of the hardware and OS to
the optimum extent. Synchronization techniques
are used to synchronize the operation of multiple
threads on the same resource and play an
important role in maintaining the Integrity of
the data. Queuing allows to defer the low
priority business transactions by queuing them
for later execution and increases the throughput
of the application for high-priority business
transactions. Business Operation Persistence
will make a business application more reliable by
persisting business operation execution requests
till the request is successfully routed to the
appropriate business logic component. This
facility also supports transaction/action
execution requests that are dependent on a other
transaction/action execution requests and need to
be persisted for longer period (days/weeks, etc)
before they are routed to the business logic
component. e-Biz Central provides developers, a
non-programmatic, platform programming language
independent way of using the above mentioned
technologies in their applications.
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Applications of E-Biz Central
1. Stand-alone Business Applications. These
types of applications are generally used by
single individuals. 2. Web-based Distributed
Business Applications. a. These types of
applications are generally used by small-average
scale business organizations for Automating
their business processes. b. Giving
accessibility for their business information to
their employees Customers from any where in
the World using any device. 3. Web-based
Collaborative Business Applications. This type
of applications are generally used by
average-large scale business organizations
for a. Automating their business processes. b.
Giving accessibility for their business
information to their employees Customers from
any where in the World using any
device. c. Integrating their business process
with the business process of their Partners,
Suppliers Dealers. Note The following
scenarios are possible for the Applications
Products for which Source code is available
and/or the Applications Products that are
programmable using APIs and/or Component
technologies like COM, CORBA, etc. 4. Providing
Multi-User support Access Control facilities
for existing Business Applications
Business automation Products like ERP, CRM, SCM
etc. 5. Web enabling existing Business
Applications Business automation Products like
ERP, CRM, SCM etc. 6. Providing Platform
Language Independent XML based API for existing
Business Applications Business
automation Products like ERP, CRM, SCM etc, so
that they can be easily integrated with
other applications and participate in a
Collaborative-Digital-Business-Process.
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e-Business Development Studio (e-BUDS)
e-BUDS is a flexible GUI application built in
Java for developing maintaining applications on
e-Biz Central platform. e-BUDS has built in
support for Remote development application
maintenance, which will tremendously cut down the
cost of travel post-development support.
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Road-Map for E-Biz Central
e-Biz Central was designed developed from
ground-up, to be a stable secure Technology
platform for developing deploying Open business
applications. Its current features provides
developers with all the technology support for
developing business applications in a platform
programming language Independent manner. Very
soon e-Biz Central will support Real Time
Communication services like Audio/Video
conferencing rooms, etc. thru its optimized
browser, e-Business Explorer (e-BEX). This will
allow end-users of the e-Biz Central based
applications to interact with the application
other end-users in a secure flexible way.
Features of e-Business Explorer
e-Business Explorer

• Highly Secure data transfer
• customized for e-Biz Central Apps
• 2d-3d Graphic library
• Comprehensive Charts Graphs
• library
• Virtual Conferencing Rooms with
• following communication facilities
• 1. Audio conferencing
• 2. Video conferencing
• 3. Text-Chat
• 4. Digital White board
• 5. File Transfer
• 6. Document exchange

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e-Business Explorer is an Optimized browser for
the End-Users to interact with the Applications
built on e-Biz Central.
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e-Biz Central Real-Time Communication (RTC)
Services
e-Biz Central based Application
Conference Room type Services allowed
RTC Permission Table
User
Global
One-One
Conference Room
Site Level
One-Many
Organization Level
Many-Many
Audio
Video
Text-Chat
File transfer
White board
Active Document Exchange
e-Business Explorer (e-BEX)