Advantages of ebXML

As you can tell from this simple model, ebXML specifications provide the following advantages:

• Standardized way of describing B2B Protocols and their associated information models

• Registration and storing B2B Protocol and Information Meta Models so they can later be shared and reused

• Discovery and sharing of information about each participant including:

  • Supported B2B Protocols

  • Business service interfaces offered in support of each B2B Protocol

  • Business messages exchanged between their respective business service interfaces

  • Technical configuration of any supported transport, security, and encoding protocols

  Way to register the previously described information for later access and retrieval

• Way to describe the execution of mutually agreed-upon business arrangements derived from information provided by each participant from the discovery of information; these arrangements are called Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPAs)

• Standardized business messaging service framework enabling interoperable, secure, and reliable exchanges of messages between Trading Partners

• Reliable way for configuring the respective messaging services to engage in agreed-upon B2B Protocols, in accordance with constraints defined in any predefined business arrangement