This tutorial was delivered at the OASIS Symposium in San Francisco, May 2006. It provides an overview of the e-Business XML (ebXML) framework, as it is used today for integration in commerce, government and healthcare initiatives internationally.

Norway's National Insurance Administration (NIA) upgraded the EDI-based communications infrastructure it used to connect to its business partners with a new architecture based on open standards, including the ebXML Messaging OASIS Standard, ISO 15000-2. NIA's ebXML Message service was built using the Xenos terminalONE end-to-end, transaction gateway solution.

The ebXML Architecture spec was adopted as a Chinese National Standard in 2003, the number is GB/T 19256.1-2003. It can be found at the Standardization Administration of China.

The ebMS, CC, RegRep, BPSS, and CPP/A have all passed expert review and been forwarded to an agency known as the SAC for approval.

The Cover Pages is a comprehensive, online reference collection supporting the XML family of markup language standards, XML vocabularies, and related structured information standards. The Cover Pages Technology Report on Electronic Business XML Initiative (ebXML) provides links to principal references, briefing materials, related technologies, and more.

Helena Chemical Company, a leading U.S. agricultural products specialist, used BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and ebXML B2B technologies together to automate better and more productive supplier/distributor relationships.