The tpaXML proposed standard is currently studied as a candidate to represent this collaboration over connected businesses. Having developed software application to manage business partnership between commerce sites on the web, we think that the choice of XML and XSL as the basis of our architecture was the right choice. We have developed a software platform using industry standards such as application server architecture, XML, XSL and Java. We are convinced that it was the right choice to obtain an open and flexible software that can be extended and customized easily while easy to integrate in existing environment and connectable to other software. The tools that are currently available are not scalable enough.
Compilation seems to be the right solution.
We expect improvement on the standards to leverage the capability of our software. Xschema and XQL are the two important directions for us. XSchema because it is important to be able to check the data type of the exchanged information and to define constraints. A standard XML interface to relational databases that takes into account the rich model of XML will give us database independence and an automatic coherence between the XML schema and the database schema.