UDDI could also reduce reliance on the telephone and reduce the technical paperwork between businesses that send documents over the Internet. Microsoft rivals adopt SOAP as part of ebXML spec ComputerWorld Michael Meehan's article discusses why the messaging specifications of SOAP, a Microsoft backed e-commerce protocol, are being incorporated into the ebXML standard. InternetWeek Today, XML is the base protocol for sharing Web data. However, new Internet standards are emerging daily.
New standards promise to simplify e-businesses.
Elizabeth Montalbano's article discusses the Microsoft approach to XML standards, as well as where IBM, Sun and Oracle stand in the standards arena. Laurent's article discusses a press release issued by the W3C noting its achievement of 500 members. Don Kiely's article compares and contrasts DTD repositories. He notes that for groups in the process of developing a DTD, the 2 main reasons to pick one DTD repository over another is to advertise the existence of the DTD and to make it available for use. The home page of ebXML features breaking news, upcoming meetings, current events and press releases, mail list archives and contact information.