[ebxml-mktg-sc] web services trends?

[David RR Webber - XMLGlobal <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,537450,00.asp

Jet blue use case - but turns out only piece is the credit
card authorization!  

http://www.cw360.com/article&rd=&i=&ard=115939&fv=1

Google - API's into the Google engine - so people can add
search, spell-check and more to their applications.

Search engine vendors are desperate for any upside - 
notice they are offering free fish - hoping to hook 
bigger catch.  Once performance goes in a hole - then
they can sell dedicated service.   However the model
here is good - web service offering up nothing but
content information - not trying to run a business process.

Then 

 http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/19/020919hnbpi.xml

where the message is:

"Sargent, like Patel and St. John, is rolling out Web services internally 
based on individual projects aimed at making enterprisewide data 
available to the process layer. As the standards mature, the 
companies will each move onto to larger-scale deployments, they said.

Testing the waters.

Clearly our challenge appears to be:

a) Showing how ebXML and web services together will solve the
     real big problem

b) Countering the FUD by running our own survey around ebXML
     adoption - canvas ebXML participants today - find out how many
     have done or are planning initial projects.

c) Getting better WP materials out there on what I'm calling XIS - 
     XML Integration System - that show clearly how to deploy
     agile information systems based around the full depth of ebXML
     architecture, with a web service adjunct to manage lightweight
     information points, and point services - like credit card checks.

As Peter Coffee says - nothing new here - this is B2B EDI with
realtime-EDI for event checking, and then XML and some OO 
sprinkled in!!!   

What makes it different and compelling is the ebXML infrastructure,
providing you with an open system based on business semantics.

DW.