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Autotech 07, Detroit,
August 22 - ebMS V3 tested for B2B in the Automotive Industry
By Jacques Durand
The Inventory Visibility
Test Framework (IVTF) team, from the Inventory Visibility and Interoperability
(IV&I) pilot project sponsored by AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group), reported at
Autotech-07 on its recent achievements in using SOAP-based protocols and OAGIS
XML documents for an inventory MinMax scenario involving several parties. Among
the team participants, Fujitsu and Axway have demonstrated a MinMax exchange
using message handlers implementing the recent ebXML Messaging Service V3 (ebMS
V3) specification.
Among the features
demonstrated, new in V3:
- Message pulling for light partners without static IP addresses or with limited connectivity, - The ability for an ebMS V3 gateway to interact with internally-deployed Web services, allowing remote partners to focus on business payloads while ignoring interface definition details. The accessed inventory
Web services were hosted by Ford and Sun Microsystems.
In the past, ebMS V2 had
been successfully deployed in the Automotive industry(GeneralMotors,
Volkswagen), and has been profiled for automotive retail (STAR) in US. Version 3
of ebMS will make it easier to integrate in SOA environments, while supporting
messaging functions originally found in M.O.Ms for accommodating diverse
messaging styles and scalability requirements. An excerpt of the presentation
made can be found at:
“AIAG is supportive of
ebMS3 because it enables trading partners to pull for incoming messages, which
is very beneficial for smaller trading partners that do not have static Internet
IP addresses or do not want to keep their systems turned on all the time.
Automotive has invested in both ebMS and Web Services capabilities; ebMS3 should
facilitate interoperable data exchange using both transport mechanisms.“ Said Pat Snack, GM Executive Loan AIAG |