RE: Initial correlation of ebXML Transport requirements with CORBA services

["Rik Drummond" <drummond@onramp.net>]

so can someone tell us what the functionality of these models.. so that we
can do our due diligence?

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Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 12:25 PM
To: Henry Lowe
Cc: Rik Drummond; Henry Lowe; ebXML-Transport@lists.oasis-open.org;
henry@emerald.omg.org; andrew@emerald.omg.org; soley@emerald.omg.org
Subject: RE: Initial correlation of ebXML Transport requirements with
CORBA services




Henry,
Well put.

Food 4 thought:

I would add to your comments that in the end, commercial transactions for
eMarkets
over the internet via XML will require functionality that is similar to
almost all of the
already-thought-out CORBA Services, and Java Enterprise semantics; without
an ORB.
If you buy into this thought, the intellect of these problems has already
been spent,
and a logical approach to some of this may be to start with these current
programming models
and collaboration patterns mapped to an ORBless environment.

Hmmmmm,

Scott R. Hinkelman
IBM Austin
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Henry Lowe <hlowe@omg.org> on 12/10/99 11:40:38 AM

To:   "Rik Drummond" <drummond@onramp.net>
cc:   "Henry Lowe" <hlowe@omg.org>, ebXML-Transport@lists.oasis-open.org,
      henry@emerald.omg.org, andrew@emerald.omg.org, soley@emerald.omg.org
Subject:  RE: Initial correlation of ebXML Transport requirements with
      CORBA services




Hi Rik,

>Henry, could you give us some better background on corba and xml. will you
>be converting corba to an xml based mechanism? Best regards, rik

No, there are no plans to convert CCORBA to an XML based mechanism,
but there is already an active move to make it easier to use CORBA
to support XML -- you could do it with what's in CORBA products on
the market today treating XML as an octet string or character string.
However, the new work, the RFP is called XML/value, will do a better
job of it.

This is a major reason I'm participating in the Transport & Packing
group -- XML needs a transport which provides security (encryption,
authentication, non-repudiation and all that good stuff) and also
a transport which provides the two phase commit semantics for
once-and-onnce-only (which will probably be VERY important to
e-commerce as I don't think banks will be too keen on transferring
millions of dollars/euros if there is a chance the transport is
going to lose or possible replicate the transfer ;-).  CORBA has it
now, our specs are open (indeed, we're submitting them to ISO
using their PAS process), and the specs are implemented in
commercially supported products which are on the market.

Information on XML/value is on our web site at
http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/XML_Value_RFP.html
As I said, it's new and the list of companies which have turned in
a Letter of Intent to submit is on this page (there is definite
interest).  We haven't had any submissions yet, but that's not too
surprising as the deadline hasn't passed.  For those interested in
more detail, there's a link to the RFP itself.

On the OMG home page, there is also a pointer to some more info on
XML as it relates to OMG -- http://www.omg.org/xml/

There are two other areas in which we currently use XML:
1. XMI which is an XML based means for texhanging UML models and
   other meta data, and
2. in our component model where descriptors of components are in
   XML.
However, this isn't the subject of your question.

Hope this helps without being too long.  Glad to answer any further
questions.  Sorry about preaching two phase commit transaction
processing, but I'm a true believer.  It probably won't be the
last time I'll harangue the group on this :-)

Best regards,
Henry
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At 08:47 AM 12/10/1999 -0600, Rik Drummond wrote:
>Henry, could you give us some better background on corba and xml. will you
>be converting corba to an xml based mechanism? Best regards, rik
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ebxml-transport@lists.oasis-open.org
>[mailto:owner-ebxml-transport@lists.oasis-open.org]On Behalf Of Henry
>Lowe
>Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 12:50 PM
>To: ebXML-Transport@lists.oasis-open.org
>Cc: henry@emerald.omg.org
>Subject: Initial correlation of ebXML Transport requirements with CORBA
>services
>
>
>Hi,
>
>As a possible basis for discussion, attached is a first pass
>at correlating the ebXML transport requirements from San Jose
>with CORBA services.  There's still work to be done in that
>a) I'm not sure I understand all of the requirements, and
>b) I need some help from some of the OMG members to ensure
>   I get it right.
>
>But, it is a start and perhaps we can use it on the ConCall to
>clarify some of (a) and chat about some of (b).
>
>Has a time and number been fixed for the Call?  I have the
>feeling I've been missing some in-coming e-mail (of course,
>that's one of those things that's hard to pin down ;-)
>
>Best regards,
>Henry
>