Brad,
Is there a website where we can learn more about your product?
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Hodges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:00 PM
To: Paul Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A FEW VERY SIMPLE QUESTION!!!
Good questions
XML is just a text document, ASCII characters. So anyway you can ship
a
text file works for XML as well. Our companies product initially uses
HTTP as the basic transport mechanism. In the future we'll support
HTTP,
SMTP, FTP and possibly more. That's not the tough part though. The
tough
part is all the attendant infrastructure required to build a b2b
collaboration between the two partners. For example, one I've received
ax
XML document that contains a PO, how do I get it converted and shipped
off
to the SAP system for actual order entry.
The functionality you ask about is being addressed by our company's
product
, WebLogic Collaborate (WLC). WLC is e-business infrastructure, all of
the common generic stuff pre-built, so all you have to do is add XML
definitions and work flow definitions and adapters to your legacy
applications, and you're ready to drop in XML based e-business.
In our product, the XML HUB is responsible for XML routing. The
routing
is based on a partner profile you set up when you set up your
relationship
with the partner. When you establish the relationship with that
partner, he would have to obtain an X.509 digital certificate for
authentication. Once that certificate is known to the HUB, that
partner
can conduct secure e-commerce using SSL (https).
BEA has developed a technology called XML Open Communication Protocol
(XOCP). XOCP manages the lifecycle of conversations between partners
exchanging XML docs to conduct business transactions. XOCP is like XA
and
2PC in the distributed transaction space, which makes sense since BEA
TUXEDO virtually invented XA over 16 years ago, and the same engineers
who
devised and perfected XA are now working on XOCP.
This is one companies approach, there are others with probably quite
different approaches.
HTH
At 03:02 PM 7/25/00 +0100, Paul Williams wrote:
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Hi all,
>
>The question I have now, is a very simple one in theory?. But I have
tried to
>find out the answer by searching the Internet, but yet to no avail.
>
>My questions are:
>
>What do I need to send an XML document over the Internet, or using
SMTP.
>
>How is the above done?. i.e, how does the message get from the
application
>onto
>the Internet and arrive at it destination?.
>
> How does the XML get it's address information
> Where does any encryption take place
>
>I hope there is somebody out there that could just clarify these couple
of
>questions. As this I feel is just the gap that is missing in my basic
>knowledge
>of the XML process.
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>
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