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Other Must-Know Groups, Standards, and Terms
ebXML.org: A non-profit confab of about 200 corporations founded in February 2000 and dedicated to promoting XML as the cornerstone for business conducted via the Internet. ebXML.org is a joint initiative of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and OASIS. Corporate participants include Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Cisco Systems. Drafts of key specifications in the ebXML standard are now available for review on the group's Web site.
Digital Signatures: A cryptographic piece of data that is attached to a piece of code. The piece of code could be program code, a Web Service, or XML messages. The Digital Signature is meant to provide assurance to the receiving user (end user) that what it is they are working with is unaltered or has its original integrity.
JAXB: Java Architecture for XML Binding - provides a mapping between XML document elements and Java classes, allowing XML documents to be treated as native Java objects
JAXP: Java API for XML Parsing - enables applications to parse and transform XML documents using whichever type of XML processor (DOM, SAX, or XSLT) is preferred.
JAXR: Java API for XML Registries - offers a uniform mechanism for accessing business registries through Java
JAXM: Java API for XML Messaging - facilitates XML-based messaging via the Java programming language
JAX-RPC: Java API for XML-based RPC - facilitates XML-based RPC over the Internet, allowing XML-formatted parameters to be passed to remote services, and XML-formatted values returned
HTTPS: The "secure" version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is based on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Liberty Alliance: Sun's answer to Microsoft's Passport; a single sign-on user identification system. Major supporters include Visa, Bank of America, United Airlines, and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies.
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards): A non-profit consortium of dozens of high-tech companies with the goal of developing standards based on XML and SGML languages. Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM are all active in this initiative.
Passport: Microsoft's propriety single-sign-on user-identification apparatus.
PIPs: Partner Interface Processes (see RosettaNet)
RosettaNet: defines a standard set of protocols and message formats for supply chain integration, called Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). The RosettaNet PIPs have been registered as service types in UDDI, and businesses can associate their services with these RosettaNet service types. Users can search the UDDI registry for businesses that support these PIPs. Other industry organizations can also register their service types in UDDI.
SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language, which allows multiple systems to share security and authentication information.
SunONE: Sun's Open Net Environment: Sun's "preferred" overall framework for its Web services and enterprise Web application-building products. Includes the iPlanet application server, the NetBeans and Forte developers' tools, and integration support services.
UN/CEFACT: The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business. The United Nations, no less, is a key player and international advocate in the electronic-business XML picture.
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium. The international governing agency for Internet standards.
WebMethod: A derivative of Microsoft's original Web form in the Visual Studio 7 IDE; it is the declaration for turning a piece of code into a Web service automatically in the .NET environment.
WSFL: Web Services Flow Language; the newest Web services technology. Defines workflows composed of Web services, and composes Web services from lower-level workflows.
WS-I: A new (announced Feb. 6) cross-industry initiative designed to accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable Web services across a variety of platforms, applications, and programming languages. Founders include Accenture, BEA Systems, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP AG. The mission of WS-I will be to provide implementation guidance to support customers deploying Web services, promote consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services, and articulate a common industry vision for Web services.
XKMS: XML Key Management System, a system for managing public keys that incorporates key registration and distribution.
XACML: Extensible Access Control Markup Language provides an XML solution to issues of authorization using Digital Rights Management (DRM) and other access control policies.
XAML: Transaction Authority Markup Language (XAML) is a vendor-neutral standard that enables the coordination and processing of online transactions.
XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations help display data in various formats and for different platforms. Because Web services ultimately exchange XML-formatted messages, it is often necessary to transform that XML into a format that can be understood by a particular client device, such as a cell phone—or even human-readable display.
| Author Note: ebXML.org offers its own detailed glossary for ebXML terminology. It is available for download in document form. |
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Introduction
Other Must-Know Groups, Standards, and Terms
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