Charles Miller wrote: > > Ulrich Staudinger propagated the following meme: > > > > I personally think jabber lacks some real advantages for financial > > services or the similar over simple. Zion and me have already started > > working on a jep for transmitting ebXML and EDI data via jabber. I hope > > this brings jabber into an advantegous position. > > Now I'm curious. Beyond buzzword-compliance, is there a practical > application of EDI over IM? Systems that consume EDI don't tend to > move around a lot. >
I think there are many practical applications of EDI over IM. First of all, EDI will be transmitted via IM in an envelope, IM/Jabber/XMPP is the transmission layer in this approach. It can well be thought of scenarios were wireless or mobile devices automatically create the EDI commands and transmit them to a sort of "EDI gateway" which then transforms the message to a native EDI command for real old byte level oriented EDI systems or other native XML EDI systems. A transparent billing system is only one possible application for this. Bluetooth could also be a technology where moving EDI/ebXML systems can create need for a unified transaction system, a customer moves into a shop and communicates with another communicative part, the communication is done through a communication protocol which transmits the transaction commands. But (!) may be ebXML will take care of this itself. However i think ebXML/EDI should be transmitted within jabber/xmpp in a more native way/in a defined way. There are dozens of scenarios for consistent data exchange in commercial transaction systems in a unified format (EDI/ebXML), but none has been defined for use with jabber/xmpp yet. Discussion welcome! :) ulrich _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
