Hong Kong SAR, Peoples Republic of China - 4 February 2008 - Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University of Hong Kong (HKU) contributes Observatory Service Broker (OSB) to CECID open-source community website.
Thanks to ITF funding, the Observatory Service Broker (OSB) is one of the project deliverable of Project Plumber. The OSB is an enhanced version of a process-driven enterprise service bus, which supports a choreography-based business process. It is based on a published Java standard - Java Business Integration (JBI). JBI is a Java-based standard addressing the EAI and B2B issues based on the paradigms and principles advocated by SOA. It defines the standards for composite plug-ins in SOA architecture, as well as how the plug-ins can communicate with each other. Along with the OSB, there is a Business Process State Tracking (BPST) engine registering the rule sets to guide the execution of business processes and keep track the state of each rule set.
OSB, BPST and their source codes (http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/product/plumber) are released to CECID open-source community website under GNU General Public License Version 2. Later on, useful information and articles ranging from technical issue to general usage of OSB will be available at the community website. In addition, professional support is provided by CECID's VARs and can be requested through email enquiry@cecid.hku.hk.
About Project Plumber (www.cecid.hku.hk/projectplumber.php)
Coined Project Plumber, the project has awarded HK$ 9.2M from the HKSAR
Government's Innovation and Technology Commission and HK$ 1.2M cash
support from industry sponsors. Commenced on March 2006, the project
aims to research and develop a software platform to facilitate
enterprises to design and implement service oriented applications to
transact with business partners based on key business-to-business (B2B)
standards. The objectives of this project are to extend
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to support processing of electronic
transactions between enterprises, to develop Web Service components to
support reliable and secure B2B applications based on open standards
like Universal Business Language (UBL), and to develop service modeling
methodology and software to facilitate design of electronic transaction
services.
About CECID (www.cecid.hku.hk)
Established in January 2002, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure
Development (CECID) at the University of Hong Kong conducts e-commerce
research and development with the vision of helping organizations
increase their competitiveness in the global economy. CECID develops
e-commerce enabling technologies, participates in important
international e-commerce initiatives, as well as supports e-commerce
standardization for Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region. With
projects primarily funded by the Hong Kong Government's Innovation and
Technology Commission, CECID also takes on the mission to transfer
knowledge and technology to the community. Besides organizing forums
and seminars, the Center licenses its R&D results through the
University of Hong Kong to IT industry. Its acclaimed e-commerce
technology, Hermes, has penetrated over 80 economies and won the Best
Infrastructure and Communication Application of the Linux Business
Award 2005 as well as Certificates of Merit of the Asia-Pacific ICT
Awards 2004 and HK Computer Society IT Excellence Award 2004.
PR Contacts for Press and Analysts
Rosanna Yip (rwyyip@cecid.hku.hk)
Operations Manager
Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID)
Dept. of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2241 5798
Fax: +852 2547 4611
URL: www.cecid.hku.hk