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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is getting a crescent adherence to represent information/data exchanged between systems, not only in the Internet domain but also to support interoperability among heterogeneous enterprise applications. The EDI community is playing a major role, contributing to establish an effective electronic commerce among SMEs with the adoption of XML and related standards in conjunction with the normalized semantics that de facto supports the EDI, as it is done nowadays. This paper discusses the advantages that the XML technology brings to the electronic commerce and the strategy used to extend the PRODNET infrastructure. The business processes in Virtual Enterprises are deeply dependent of communications among trading partners with heterogeneous technologies. The complexity of the exchanged messages requires a flexible, easy to understand, easy to manage and widely accepted representation language to model business information.
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- Transport Layer Security
- Electronic Business
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Osório, A.L., Gibon, P., Barata, M.M. (2001). Electronic Commerce with XML/EDI in Virtual Enterprises. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Rabelo, R.J. (eds) E-Business and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35399-9_30
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