OWL-S W3C Submission: Reference to ebXML

Not sure if any 
others have seen this yet - it's OWL-S' "Relationship to Selected Other 
Technologies[1]" as part of its 22 November 2004 W3C Submission. The 
technologies discussed are:

  
WSDL 

  
SOAP 

  
UDDI 

  
BPEL4WS 
  
  
CDL 
  
ebXML 
  
  
Grid services 
  
OWL and SWRL 
  
WSMO 
  

The ebXML section is 
brief, with nothing earth-shattering (but good for us to be aware of). Key 
points:

 

- Although 
ebXML does not restrict the means of B2B interaction to Web services, their 
focus is essentially the same as that of OWL-S.

- Since OWL-S 
provides a language for the description of the behaviour of Web services, its 
scope is complementary to that of ebXML. In fact, OWL-S descriptions could 
themselves be used within ebXML to describe the business processes of 
interacting Web services. 

 

[1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-OWL-S-related-20041122/#ebxml

 

Kind Regards,

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

Strategy and Technology Consultants to 
the World