Discovering and Integrating Web-based E-Services
by Brahim Medjahed
 

Business-to-Business E-commerce (B2B) is a prime candidate to take advantage of the information revolution the Web has brought about. Ad-hoc and proprietary solutions on the one hand, and lack of a canonical model for creating and managing E-commerce services (e-services) on the other hand, have largely hampered a faster pace in deploying Web-based business applications. We propose a system called Web Base of Internet-accessible Services (WebBIS) that would elicit the outsourcing and management of Web-based e-services. We describe the salient features of this approach, including a set of two languages to define, manipulate, compose, and locate e-services. We also provide a WebBIS architecture that relies on emerging Web-based technologies including XML, Java, EJB, and database APIs.