Webswell Business Hub V3 released; more comprehensive B2B process automation

Webswell Inc. releases Webswell Business Hub 3 - B2B integration platform with ebXML - the premier open source solution for advanced document interchange.

Several enhancements to the overall versatility and flexibility have aimed at making it possible to interconnect virtually anyone to anyone, regardless of supported protocol or technology. The Business Hub implements ebXML, Web Services, AS2 and EDI standards.

Business Hub 3 now contains a dedicated Business Process Engine in order to allow building complex business orchestrations with multiple parties involved.

The key capabilities now available are:-

• Support for EDI delivery standards


• Better support of Web Services integration


• Built-in Business Process engine (BPEL-based) for handling multi-party, multi-document automation.


• New web-based (AJAX) monitoring portal that allows routing and management of messaging and business process executions.

The successful Webswell business hub solution is designed to allow companies or units connected to the Business Hub to interchange their documents with partners even when this involves integrating incompatible data formats and supporting different messaging protocols.

For instance, an invoice sent from one company as EDI document via https can be received by a second company as a XML invoice via SMTP (email). Being transmitted through the Business Hub, the business document can be transformed, translated, validated or verified automatically which significantly reduces requirements for participants IT infrastructure.

The new release adds capability to easily track status of business processes via web-enabled dashboard monitoring and control.

For more information and downloading of Webswell Hub 3 see:
http://www.webswell.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=35&Itemid=84

Webswell Inc. is a San Francisco, CA based integration company with offices in the USA and Europe that specializes in building EDI, ebXML, AS2 and Web Services integration solutions and providing related services.

Hermes H2O update released - better ebXML email delivery support

A new release of the popular H2O open source ebXML messaging system is now available.

The new release focuses on improvements to message delivery using ebMS by e-mail.

Enhancements include:

• adding program library of functions to enable ebMS to query an SMTP mailbox with POP3 and IMAP
• Extend the default time interval for ebMS to query mailbox from 5 seconds to 5 minutes
• Updated user interface of installer package

The new installer download is available from :

http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/product/download/download_h2o

UN/CEFACT announces formal approval and release of CCTS V3.0

UN/CEFACT announces availability of CCTS V3.0 for general release
The original core components technical specification, now in V3.

New release is cleaner and more coherent and base types better defined. Although the press release says "neutral model" in reality there is alignment to how W3C Schema enables the core concepts and types to be implemented.

The CCTS Version 3.0 is available from the UNECE website at: http://www.unece.org/cefact/codesfortrade/CCTS/CCTS-Version3.pdf

The CCTS Data Type Catalogue Version 3.0 is available from the UNECE website at: http://www.unece.org/cefact/codesfortrade/CCTS/CCTS-DataTypeCatalogueVersion3p0.pdf

These documents provide much detail and overall knowledge that is applicable for practitioners wishing to understand these aspects of data modelling.

Formal press release: http://www.unece.org/press/pr2009/09trade_p12e.htm