Sample Test ebXML Message using UBL 1.0 SBS

Just to demonstrate that the UBL 1.0 Small Business Subset and
its included Universal Business Process (1.0) artifacts can be used
with leading ebXML software to send and receive UBL messages,
I attach a trace file from Sacha Schlegel showing such a message
sent and received between two such ebXML products.

Of course, it should be added that it is * not * a requirement that
ebXML standards be used for such transactions, but it is good
to know that so using ebXML for business collaborations does not
appear to present any insurmountable problems when the UBL 1.0
Small Business Subset and Universal Business Process 1.0
artifacts are used.

Thanks Sacha.

I also attach a zipped file 'UBP-1-0-ebBP-validation.zipped' which shows
in a validation test that all the modules of the UBP 1.0 ebBP business
process definitions can be combined into a single definition. This might
better be done in practise using the 'Include' mechanism mentioned in the
ebBP 2.0 specification but having the definition packages side-by-side
in the same instance demonstrates that the naming of the individual
components allows their use together without id clashes. Note that in the
UBP each component 'package' of transaction and collaboration, with
the associated document and signal specifications, are held in a separate
file to facilitate discretionary modular adoption by trading parties. The
CPA examples show how such parties might then declare their adoption of
any of the process definitions in CPA documents which can then be made
visible to other parties. Having the same process definitions to which they
can refer provided publicly in the SBS and its UBP facilitates the finding
of trading partners who use the same processes / documents. The CPA
templates can, we hope, then be used to help traders or their software providers
create their actual ebCPA documents in collaboration with trading partners.

All the best,

Stephen Green
UBL SBSC