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A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The Business
Transactions Technical Committee has been proposed by Rocky
Stewart, BEA Systems (chair); Pal Takacsi-Nagy, BEA Systems;
Frederick Carter, Sun Microsystems; and Mark Hale, Interwoven.
To become a member of this new TC you must notify Rocky Stewart
(rocky.stewart@bea.com),
the committee chair, of your interest at least 15 days prior
to the first meeting and then you must participate in the
first meeting on March 13, 2001. You should also subscribe
to the TC's discussion list. (For the procedure for joining
after the first meeting see the TC process at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml.)
The mail list business-transaction@lists.oasis-open.org is
for committee discussions. TC members as well as any other
interested OASIS members should subscribe to the list. Do
this by sending a message to business-transaction-request@lists.oasis-open.org
with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. (Note
that subscribing to the mail list does not make you a member
of the TC; to become a member you must contact the TC chair
as described in the preceding paragraph.)
Business Transactions Committee Proposal
BEA Systems, a member of OASIS, proposes to start a Technical
Committee in OASIS to develop technology for business transactions
on the Internet. Long lasting business transactions spanning
multiple enterprises pose a unique challenge to B2B systems.
The interdependent workflows managed among multiple trading
partners, which drive business transactions, need to be coordinated
to ensure that the outcome of the transaction is reliable.
As an initial input, BEA intends to offer a specification
for our Business Transaction Protocol (BTP), which provides
this functionality and is implemented in our Weblogic Collaborate
product. BTP is an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based
protocol for representing and seamlessly managing complex,
multi-step business-to-business (B2B) transactions over the
Internet. The protocol allows complex XML message exchanges
to be tracked and managed as loosely coupled "conversations"
between and among businesses. BTP goes beyond the problem
domain currently being addressed by ebXML and is independent
of transport protocols and messaging frameworks. We believe
that it can be layered on any underlying transport mechanism
including ebXML Messaging, RosettaNet, or XML-PC (SOAP).
The purpose of this committee is:
- To develop an agreed to set of requirements for a business
transaction protocol
- To evaluate the BEA technology submission and other available
technologies made available to the committee and determine
their suitability to the requirements identified by the
committee
- To produce a final specification for a business transaction
protocol which works in conjunction with existing business
messaging standards, particularly those being developed
in the ebXML initiative
BEA will make its detailed submission available by the end
of February 2001, before the first meeting, and will make
a presentation describing the proposed BTP technology at the
first meeting.
An initial schedule for the committee is summarized below:
- January 19, 2001 - OASIS issues Call for Participation
- March 13, 2001 - First Meeting to be hosted by BEA Systems
at our San Jose headquarters
- April 30, 2001 - Initial Requirements Document ready for
review
- May 31, 2001 - First Specification Draft available for
review
- July 31, 2001 - Final Specification Draft available for
Version 1.0
We propose to set the detailed schedule at the first meeting
of the committee to accommodate the needs of the members,
including dates for conference calls (most likely bi-weekly)
and at most two additional face-to-face meetings (one in the
middle of the schedule and the latter to review the final
draft). BEA Systems will host the first meeting in San Jose,
California on March 13, 2001. For those unable to travel to
San Jose, a dial-in number will be provided. BEA will assume
responsibility for the setup of conference calls as required.
The TC will conduct its business in English.
The initial committee membership will be as follows:
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