Michael Fitzgerald 
Building B2B Applications with XML 
A Resource Guide

What every IT manager and system administrator needs to know about
the technology that drives the B2B marketplace

The B2B marketplace is rapidly exploding–fast outpacing
business-to-consumer e-commerce and expected to reach more than $7
trillion in sales by 2004. This guidebook equips XML authors,
programmers, and managers with the technology know-how they need to
create and develop simple yet robust B2B systems from scratch. It
provides easy-to-understand explanations on how and why XML and
other important technologies such as HTTP and MIME are driving the
B2B marketplace. Along with XML and Java code examples, readers
will find broad coverage of emerging standards and protocols,
including Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), eb XML from
OASIS/UN/CEFACT, XML Common Business Language (x CBL), Biz Talk, and
Commerce XML (c XML).

Table of Content

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR B2B.

Getting Down to Business-to-Business.

The XML Foundation.

Transport.

Security.

VOCABULARIES, FRAMEWORKS, AND PROTOCOLS.

eb XML.

x CBL.

c XML.

Simple Object Access Protocol.

Biz Talk.

Putting It All Together.

Notes.

About the author

MICHAEL FITZGERALD is principal of Wy’east Communications, a writing and training consultancy specializing in XML. He is Series Editor for the Wiley XML Essentials series and author of XSL Essentials and XML Schema Essentials ( both forthcoming from Wiley). He is also Series Architect for Quessing Courseware Corporation’s XML training series.