ebXML Registry News from SUN

This week saw the announcement of a new ebXML Registry product by Sun. Related stories appeared in|on cbr, i-newswire, internetnews, javaworld, techworld, and yahoo.

Try ebXML Registry online - and handy resources

A community test registry is now available online that allows you to interact with an ebXML registry instance through a web browser interface.

The access link is here: http://registry.paradigma.net/omar

A simple search that works is for items with description containing: %xml%

In addition the page link here contains handy reference material to help you get started with your own ebXML Registry project:
http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net/tmp/ebXMLRegistryLinks.html

All these tools are showing how it is becoming much easier to stand-up your own registry project and build practical user interface constructs for it that deliver business solutions.

IHEOS - Secure cross-enterprise document exchange (XDS) using ebXML Registry

The XDS initiative founded by IHE and NIST has released the initial code-base to open source and created a project on Source Forge called 'iheos' which stands for 'IHE Open Source'.

For an overview of the project and the goals of IHE see this presentation:
http://www.hl7.de/iamcda2004/finalmat/day3/CDA2004%20XDS%202004-10-2.pdf

The XDS server is using the open source ebXML Registry implementation as its base and adding on top of that mechanisms using SAML XML and more to provide secure document exchange. The focus is particularly healthcare applications.

You can find the open source project at this link:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iheos-xdsimpl

and more about the design of XDS from this link.
http://www.rsna.org/IHE/tf/IHE_ITI_Cross-enterprise_Doc_Sharing_2004_08-15.pdf