This hands-on developer's guide to Web services prepares you for the next level of distributed computing. The authors clearly show how to implement and deploy Web services using Java while also explaining the fundamentals from the ground up. After providing a detailed introduction to Web services, they walk you through the Web services architecture and its core building blocks, including standards and technologies.

RAPR is a project of the research team Knowledge Management of the DFKI Kaiserslautern in collaboration with John Deere and Agricultural Management Solutions (AMS) in Zweibrücken for the Land Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany. RAPR stands for Raumbezogene Regelwerkzeuge für ein Produktions- und Ressourcenmanagement von Biorohstoffen. It is one component within a larger set of interacting tools which shall realize various services in the agricultural domain.

In the Netherlands, a profile of ebXML Messaging 2.0 has been developed and selected for interchange of information among government agencies. This profile is documented using the ebXML IIC "deployment template". It is now published online at:

http://www.overheidsservicebus.nl/documentatie/
http://www.overheidsservicebus.nl/fileadmin/OSB/OSB_ebMS_Koppelvlak_Stan...

This presentation refers to a specific data model to support supply chain traceability.

It shows how, upon a proper modeling process of the overall supply chain, ebXML can be proficiently used to cope with business interoperability issues in the context of traceability information systems. In particular, exchange of traceability information can proficiently exploit the ebXML messaging system.

OASIS hosts publicly archived mail lists for providing input to ebXML Technical Committee members: