[JDEV] FIMA

[Ulrich Staudinger]

Charles Miller wrote:
> 
> Ulrich Staudinger propagated the following meme:
> >
> > I personally think jabber lacks some real advantages for financial
> > services or the similar over simple. Zion and me have already started
> > working on a jep for transmitting ebXML and EDI data via jabber. I hope
> > this brings jabber into an advantegous position.
> 
> Now I'm curious. Beyond buzzword-compliance, is there a practical
> application of EDI over IM? Systems that consume EDI don't tend to
> move around a lot.
> 

I think there are many practical applications of EDI over IM. First of
all, EDI will be transmitted via IM in an envelope, IM/Jabber/XMPP is
the transmission layer in this approach. It can well be thought of
scenarios were wireless or mobile devices automatically create the EDI
commands and transmit them to a sort of "EDI gateway" which then
transforms the message to a native EDI command for real old byte level
oriented EDI systems or other native XML EDI systems. A transparent
billing system is only one possible application for this. Bluetooth
could also be a technology where moving EDI/ebXML systems can create
need for a unified transaction system, a customer moves into a shop and
communicates with another communicative part, the communication is done
through a communication protocol which transmits the transaction
commands. But (!) may be ebXML will take care of this itself. However i
think ebXML/EDI should be transmitted within jabber/xmpp in a more
native way/in a defined way.

There are dozens of scenarios for consistent data exchange in commercial
transaction systems in a unified format (EDI/ebXML), but none has been
defined for use with jabber/xmpp yet. 

Discussion welcome! :)

ulrich