A survey and comparison of business-to-business e-commerce frameworks

ABSTRACT

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is booming thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet, which dwarfs the coverage of EDI VANs. B2B e-commerce needs to seamlessly and dynamically handle the interactions among a vast variety of organizations without ad hoc and proprietary integrations. A number of B2B e-commerce frameworks have emerged as a result. In this paper we present a brief survey and a comparison of some of these frameworks.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce
          Subjects: Electronic data interchange (EDI)

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
      D.1.5 Object-oriented Programming

          Nouns: CORBA

  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.1 Logical Design
          Subjects: Schema and subschema
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation

          Nouns: XML

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce
          Subjects: Distributed commercial transactions

General Terms:
Economics, Languages, Management, Standardization