ebXML Asia Committee starts ebXML interoperability
certification program and certificates 12
organizations
Bangkok, Thailand; 8 August 2003 – ebXML Asia Committee
announced starting of ebXML interoperability
certification program and issued ebXML interoperability
certification on ebXML Message Service specification 2.0,
including basic functions and reliable messaging, for 12
companies and organizations passed the interoperability
test.Interoperability is one of key issues to realize
Internet based B2B eBusiness using multi- vendor
implementations,even across countries. ebXML Message
Service is designed for B2B communication and its
reliable messaging function is to guarantee message
delivery such as arrival of a business message sent from
one company to another,preservation of message order and
elimination of duplicated arrival of business messages.
The goal of the ebXML ASIA Committee interoperability
certification is to promote ebXML through the
certification of interoperability among ebXML Asia
Committee members¡¯ products. The certificate includes
such information as "Class" which specifies the ebXML
specification to be covered and "Level" which specifies
the test categories. ebXML Asia Committee
interoperability test is performed by the
Interoperability Task Group (ITG) and the
interoperability certification is issued by ebXML ASIA
committee. And, the result of test and certification is
announced on the ebXML Asia¡¯s homepage
(www.ebxmlasia.org).
The ebXML Asia Committee certificates the following 12
organizations:
- CECID, The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR,
China)
- CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd (Singapore)
- Fujitsu Limited (Japan)
- GCOM Information Service Co., Ltd (Chinese Taipei)
- Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan)
- Institute for Innovative IT, Kasetsart University
(Thailand)
- Innodigital Co., Ltd. (Korea)
- KTNET (Korea)
- NEC Corporation (Japan)
- POSDATA (Korea)
- Samsung SDS (Korea)
- SKLSE (State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering),
Wuhan University (China)
ITG soon initiates the 3rd round of ebXML
Interoperability test, which will cover security related
test items of ebXML Message Service Specification.
For more information, please contact Secretariat of ITG
([email protected]).
About ebXML Asia Committee
ebXML Asia Committee (www.ebxmlasia.org) is a regional
committee jointly initiated by the Electronic Commerce
Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM) of Japan, the Korea
Institute for Electronic Commerce (KIEC) of Korea and the
Taipei Computer Association of Chinese Taipei. The
Committee was established in December 2000 to promote
ebXML in Asia, to jointly deal with ebXML work through
the cooperation among Asian countries and to facilitate
electronic commerce in the Asian region. With the
gradual increase of membership, there are currently more
than 24 organizational members from 11 regions of Asia
Pacific (Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore,
and Thailand). The Committee leadership is represented
by the Steering Committee, which includes Chair (Hisanao
Sugamata of ECOM), Vice-chair (Frank Lin of TCA),
Secretariat (KIEC) and two organizations (last meeting
host and next meeting host).
About ITG of ebXML Asia Committee
ITG (Interoperability Task Group) of ebXML Asia Committee
is a sub task group of ebXML Asia Committee. The ITG,
jointly chaired by Mr. Masahiko Narita of Fujitsu Limited
and Ms. Jinee Lee of Innodigital, aims to promote ebXML
standards by proving the interoperability of ebXML
specifications through actual tests. Currently, more
than 14 member organizations of ebXML Asia Committee are
participating in the ITG. The ITG started its testing on
messaging services and plans to extend its testing scope
into Security, Registry & Repository and Business Process.