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Chapter 3  Managing digital business infrastructure

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Secure document exchange – this is not an integral feature of XML but has been built 

into this application.

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Automation for complex business processes.

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Management and monitoring of business processes.

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Automated trading partner management.

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Reduced complexity in development.

Another widely adopted application of XML is ebXML (www.ebxml.org). This stand-

ard has been coordinated by Oasis (www.oasis-open.org) which is an international 

 not-  for-  profit consortium for promoting Internet standards. The original project was 

intended to define business exchange using five standards:

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business processes

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core data components

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collaboration protocol agreements

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messaging

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registries and repositories.

Oasis defines three types of transaction that form business processes: