Learning B2B

To understand the concept of B2B we will start from 10.1.2.3 version of application server because it is the base version where in B2B starts.

The main thing to know about b2b are the document type.B2B support various document types that includes

cXML commerce XML

HL7 Health level 7

PIP BD Rossettanet PIP business document

UBL Oasis Universal Business language

X12 EDI transactions set

X12 N Health care

xCBL CML Common business library

XML Schema Any sml schema supported by w3

There are many more document type supported but we basically have these important documents

Next is transport mechanism.The B2B supports lot of transition mechanism.That includes

File,FTP,Secured FTP,Http,https and TCP/IP

B2B supports different exchange protocols

It includes

AS1 application statement 1 (SMTP)

As2 application statement 2 (HTTP)

RNIF rosettanet implementation framework


For now it support bpel process to be used as a connector to B2B

Different security system /packaging sytem used by B2B are

MIME,SOAP,SMIME,XML Encrypt

The different B2B standards have different link and can be found from net.

for example

for xml we have www.xml.org

dor hl7 we we have www.h17.org and so on.

It is difficult to get an idea about different B2B standards but one can go through few of them to get an overview of the standars.