Building B2B Applications With Xml

by Michael Fitzgerald (West Linn, Oregon)

• ISBN13: 9780471404019
• ISBN10: 0471404012
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

What every IT manager and system administrator needs to know about the technology that drives the B2B marketplace The B2B marketplace is rapidly exploding--fast outpacing business-to-consumer e-commerce and expected to reach more than $7 trillion in sales by 2004. This guidebook equips XML authors, programmers, and managers with the technology know-how they need to create and develop simple yet robust B2B systems from scratch. It provides easy-to-understand explanations on how and why XML and other important technologies such as HTTP and MIME are driving the B2B marketplace. Along with XML and Java code examples, readers will find broad coverage of emerging standards and protocols, including Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), ebXML from OASIS/UN/CEFACT, XML Common Business Language (xCBL), BizTalk, and Commerce XML (cXML).

Author Biography

MICHAEL FITZGERALD is principal of Wy’east Communications, a writing and training consultancy specializing in XML. He is Series Editor for the Wiley XML Essentials series and author of XSL Essentials and XML Schema Essentials ( both forthcoming from Wiley). He is also Series Architect for Quessing Courseware Corporation’s XML training series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	xix
Part One Foundation Technologies for B2B	1	(160)
Getting Down to Business-to-Business	3	(12)
What Is Business-to-Business?	4	(4)
B2B, B2C, C2C, A2A, and All That Jazz	5	(1)
What about EDI?	5	(1)
Tired of the Hype?	6	(1)
Rome, the Pony Express, Western Union, and Beyond	7	(1)
What This Book Will and Will Not Do for You	8	(1)
What's in It for You?	9	(1)
The Tools of Business Today	9	(1)
A Visit to My Insurance Agent	10	(3)
How B2B Could Help Jerry	11	(1)
Ok, What's It Going to Cost?	12	(1)
A Visit to My Insurance Agent, a Few Years Later	13	(2)
The XML Foundation	15	(40)
A Short History of Markup Languages	15	(4)
Generalized Markup Language	16	(1)
Standard Generalized Markup Language	17	(1)
Tim Berners-Lee and HTML	18	(1)
The Web and HTML Grow Up	18	(1)
Where Did XML Come From?	19	(1)
A Markup Language for Creating Markup Languages	20	(2)
What's Going to Happen to HTML?	21	(1)
Anatomy of an XML Document	22	(8)
The XML Declaration	22	(1)
The Root Element in XML	23	(1)
Child Elements	23	(1)
Well-Formed XML	24	(1)
Valid XML	24	(1)
The Document Type Declaration	24	(1)
The Document Type Definition	25	(1)
Content Models	26	(2)
Entities	28	(1)
Built-in Entities	28	(1)
Character References	29	(1)
The XML Namespace	29	(1)
XML Schema	30	(6)
The XML Schema Root Element	32	(1)
Complex and Simple Types	32	(1)
The Date Datatype	32	(1)
The Item and Shipping Method Elements	33	(2)
Attributes in XML Schema	35	(1)
Attributes and Anonymous Types	35	(1)
The Quantity and Comments Elements	35	(1)
Validating against XML Schema	36	(1)
Adding Style	36	(12)
A CSS Stylesheet for order.xml	37	(1)
Applying a Stylesheet to an XML Document	38	(1)
Extensible Stylesheet Language	39	(1)
XSLT	39	(5)
XSL Formatting Objects (XSLFO)	44	(4)
Other XML Initiatives	48	(6)
XHTML: The Marriage of HTML and XML	48	(2)
XLink and XPointer	50	(1)
Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX)	51	(3)
Beyond XML	54	(1)
Transport	55	(58)
Transmission Control Protocol and Inteenet Protocol	56	(2)
How IP Works	56	(1)
The IP Address	57	(1)
How TCP Works	58	(1)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol	58	(23)
How HTTP Works	60	(3)
Java and XML	63	(1)
Compiling and Running Java	64	(1)
Compiling and Running a Java Program	65	(3)
Retrieving order.xml with Get.java	68	(3)
Retrieving order.xml with GetOrder.java	71	(2)
Retrieving Any Document with GetAny.java	73	(2)
Putting a Document on a Server with Put.java	75	(3)
WebDAV	78	(1)
HTTP Methods	78	(1)
HTTP 1.1 Features	79	(1)
HTTP Status Codes	79	(2)
File Transfer Protocol	81	(7)
FTP Scripts	86	(2)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions	88	(9)
Internet Text Messages and Standard Mail Transfer Protocol	88	(1)
How 822 Works	88	(2)
Domain Names	90	(1)
Back to Header Fields	91	(1)
How SMTP Works	92	(2)
POP3 and IMAP4	94	(3)
How MIME Works	97	(10)
The MIME Header	98	(2)
MIME Types	100	(1)
Transfer Encoding	101	(1)
Quoted-Printable Encoding	102	(1)
Base64 Encoding	103	(1)
The multipart/mixed Content Type	104	(3)
A Simple Transport Example	107	(6)
Sending Documents via SMTP with Java	109	(3)
What's Going on in SendSMTP.java?	112	(1)
Moving on to Security	112	(1)
Security	113	(48)
Data Encryption	114	(16)
Keys	114	(1)
Public and Private Keys	115	(1)
The Diffie-Hellman-Merkle Solution	116	(1)
Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (RSA)	117	(1)
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)	117	(1)
What's Going on in GetKeys.java?	118	(1)
Running GetKeys	119	(1)
Digital Certificates	120	(2)
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Management	122	(1)
Digital Signatures	122	(1)
The Message Digest	122	(3)
How Digital Signatures Work	125	(1)
Signing order.xml with Java	125	(3)
Verifying a Signature with Java	128	(2)
Using policytool	130	(1)
Authentication	130	(7)
Authentication versus Authorization	132	(1)
Authentication on an Apache Server	132	(4)
Other Authentication Schemes	136	(1)
Pluggable Authentication Modules on Linux	137	(1)
Kerberos	137	(1)
S/MIME	137	(2)
XML Signature	139	(6)
Using Keytool	139	(2)
Running the XSS Example SampleSign2	141	(3)
Verifying the Signature File with VerifyGUI	144	(1)
IPSec	145	(2)
IPSec and VPNs	146	(1)
SSH	146	(1)
PGP	147	(6)
Secure Socket Layer (SSL)	153	(1)
Transport Layer Security (TLS)	153	(1)
The Firewall	154	(1)
A Plug for CERT	155	(1)
Directory Services: From X.500 to UDDI	155	(4)
LDAP	156	(1)
DSML	157	(1)
UDDI	158	(1)
On to Vocabularies and Protocols	159	(2)
Part Two Vocabularies, Frameworks, and Protocols	161	(124)
ebXML	163	(18)
The ebXML Effort	165	(1)
ebXML Architecture	166	(1)
How ebXML Works	167	(3)
Registry and Repository	168	(1)
Trading or Collaborative Partner Agreements	168	(1)
Click and Mortar	169	(1)
The ebXML Message	170	(7)
The MIME multipart/related Type	172	(1)
The ebXML Header Envelope	173	(1)
The ebXML Header Element	173	(1)
The Manifest Element	173	(1)
Header and Its Children	174	(1)
What's in a Message?	174	(1)
Message Reliability	175	(1)
Routing Header	176	(1)
Reliability and the Sequence Number Element	176	(1)
Handling Errors	176	(1)
An Acknowledgment Message	177	(1)
Patient Confidence	178	(3)
xCBL	181	(22)
Namespaces and xCBL	182	(1)
A Few Words about SOX	183	(2)
The XML Development Kit	185	(1)
xCBL Documents	186	(1)
A Simple Order	187	(4)
Purchase Order IDs	190	(1)
The Parties	190	(1)
Details of the Order	191	(1)
In Summary	191	(1)
A Simple Invoice	191	(5)
Invoice Header Information	194	(1)
Invoice Details, Details	195	(1)
Summarizing the Invoice	195	(1)
Setting Up an Auction	196	(5)
An Auction Create Example	197	(3)
Auction Header Information	200	(1)
Who's Involved?	200	(1)
What Are You Selling?	201	(1)
Wrap Up	201	(1)
xCBL Is Big	201	(2)
cXML	203	(34)
What You Can Do with cXML	205	(1)
No cXML Namespace?	205	(1)
A Simple Example: A Profile Transaction	206	(5)
The cXML Element	207	(1)
To, From, and Sender	208	(1)
Who Are You?	208	(1)
The Request Element	209	(1)
Other Requests and Responses	209	(1)
The Profile Response Element	210	(1)
What's the Status?	211	(1)
The Response	211	(1)
The Message Element	211	(4)
A Word on Subscriptions	213	(1)
The Subscription Change Message Element	214	(1)
Catalog Interchange Format	214	(1)
Suppliers	215	(4)
A Supplier Data Response Example	215	(1)
The Supplier Element	216	(1)
The Supplier ID and Supplier Location Elements	217	(1)
The Address Element	217	(1)
The Order Methods and Order Method Elements	218	(1)
The Contact Element	219	(1)
The Punchout Site	219	(1)
A Punchout Index Catalog	220	(4)
The Request-Response versus the One-Way Model	224	(3)
URI-Encoding	224	(1)
Form Packing	225	(2)
Cookies	227	(2)
The Punch Out Setup Response	228	(1)
Purchase Orders	229	(7)
An Order Request Document: A Complete Example	229	(4)
HTTP	233	(1)
MIME	233	(1)
Attachments	233	(1)
Order Request Header	233	(1)
The Item Out Element	234	(1)
Order Response	235	(1)
cXML Summary	236	(1)
Simple Object Access Protocol	237	(18)
A SOAP Example	238	(5)
The SOAP Envelope Element	239	(1)
The SOAP Envelope Namespace	239	(1)
The SOAP Header Element	239	(1)
The must Understand Attribute	240	(1)
The actor Attribute	240	(1)
The SOAP Body Element	241	(1)
Response Message	242	(1)
The SOAP Fault Element	242	(1)
SOAP and HTTP	243	(3)
The SOAP Action Header	244	(1)
The HTTP Response	244	(1)
SOAP, HTTP, and Firewalls	245	(1)
SOAP Encoding	246	(1)
A Working SOAP Example	247	(2)
An SMTP Example for SOAP	249	(1)
SOAP and MIME	250	(1)
SOAP Programming Resources	251	(1)
Apache SOAP Calculator Example	252	(1)
SOAP and the Future	252	(3)
BizTalk	255	(16)
A Simple BizTalk Example	256	(2)
BizTalk Messages and Documents	258	(4)
The Root Element Envelope	258	(1)
XML Schema Instance Attributes	258	(1)
The Header Element and BizTags	258	(1)
The must Understand Attribute	259	(1)
BizTalk Namespaces	259	(1)
The endpoints Element	260	(1)
The Optional services BizTag Element	260	(1)
The properties BizTag Element	261	(1)
The process Element	261	(1)
The Body Element and Business Documents	262	(3)
Multiple Business Documents	263	(1)
The manifest Element	264	(1)
Fault Codes	265	(1)
The BizTalk Receipt	265	(3)
The Delivery Receipt	265	(2)
Commitment Receipts	267	(1)
A Complete BizTalk Message: HTTP and MIME with Attachments	268	(2)
Normative and Non-Normative Specifications	270	(1)
BizTalk Basics	270	(1)
Putting It All Together	271	(14)
Why XML?	271	(1)
XML Vocabularies and Protocols	272	(3)
ebXML	273	(1)
xCBL	273	(1)
cXML	274	(1)
RosettaNet	275	(1)
SOAP	275	(1)
BizTalk	275	(1)
Standards	275	(1)
Building Applications	276	(5)
Logging and Tracking	277	(4)
What's Going on in GetOrderLog.java?	281	(1)
A Minimal B2B Application	281	(2)
This Is Only the Start	283	(2)
Notes	285
Getting Down to Business-to-Business	285
The XML Foundation	286
Transport	288
Security	290
ebXML	294
xCBL	295
cXML	296
Simple Object Access Protocol	297
BizTalk	298
Putting It All Together	299