ebXML metamodel write-up

[Karsten Riemer <Karsten.Riemer@East.Sun.COM>]

Hi,
At the joint TMWG and BP meeting in Minneapolis last week, there was some
discussion about the relevance of an ebXML metamodel in general, and its
relationship to the different specifications in particular. I drew a picture
that seemed to clear up some of the concern. After that there seemed to be
concencus that we should perhaps consider what we have called the BP metamodel
to in fact be the overall ebXML metamodel. There was also discussion on why we
could not simply use the UML metamodel as is. I described the concept of a UML
profile. After that there seemed to be acceptance of our approach. Separately
I had a discussion with Klaus Naujok about how pieces of the ebXML metamodel
could be used independent of other pieces, so that people do not get the
impression that being ebXML compliant is a daunting all or nothing
proposition. I have written all of the above up in the attached document, and
would like to request that this document become part of our next release of
the BP specification and/or part of the architecture specification.

-karsten

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