A Service Framework Specification for dynamic e-services interaction

This paper presents an overview of the concepts involved in implementing a totally inter-operable ecosystem of e-services encompassing both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer domains. These ecosystems integrate such things as supply chain automation, e-procurement, collaborative e-commerce, trading exchanges and personalized business-to-consumer interactions. This paper details the e-speak Service Framework Specification (SFS) and its core API that form the foundation for intelligent interaction amongst e-services in the ecosystem defined above. Refer to Fig-l for a detailed view of an e-speak ecosystem. This paper also addresses some of the cardinal elements of a truly inter-operable ecosystem such as compliance with XML based business process schemas defined by RosettaNet [2] and CommerceNet [3]. Note: The term e-service is widely used to refer any entity that offers a service over the Internet.