Project Plumber
The HKSAR Government's Innovation
and Technology Commission has awarded HK$9.2M to CECID for a new project, "Service
Oriented e-Transaction Platform". Funded under the
Guangdong - Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme,
the project has received HK$1.2M cash support from industry
sponsors including Digital
Trade and Transportation Network (DTTN), MTR
Corporation and iASPEC
Opensoft Shenzhen.
Project Plumber, beginning on 1 March 2006, aims to research
and develop a software platform to facilitate enterprises
to design and implement service oriented applications to
transact with business partners based on key business-to-business
(B2B) standards.
Objectives of this project are as follows:
- To extend Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
to support processing of electronic transactions between
enterprises;
- To develop Web Service components to support
reliable and secure B2B applications based on open standards
like Universal Business Language (UBL); and
- To develop service modeling methodology and
software to facilitate design of electronic transaction
services.
Six white papers on SOA have been published to share our research result in this area. Besides, one of the project deliverables, Observatory Service Broker (OSB), is now available for free download. To learn more, click here.
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