Domibus 5.0.2 released 

We are happy to announce that Domibus 5.0.2 was released. Domibus is the sample implementation of an eDelivery Access Point maintained by the European Commission.

Domibus 5.0.2 includes a number of improvements and bug fixes, among which:

• Possibility to have a separate log containing all errors
• Fixed issue related to wrong final recipient used when using dynamic discovery in a cluster environment
• Partitions with failed messages not dropped, when eArchiving enabled
• Missing authorisation headers for WS push plugin notifications
• A timer added in order to load drop wizard queue metrics after application initialisation
• Fixed broken functionality of message prioritisation on Weblogic and Tomcat
• Default value of metrics.monitor.jms.queues.refresh.period changed to 10
• Fixed the disabling of a domain added at runtime
• PUSH notifications type RECEIVE_FAIL and SEND_FAILURE not working
• Fixed migration scripts ongoing messages between 5.0 and 5.0 for Split & Join
• Fixed oracle delete script inconsistent with table structure
• Analysed and fixed OWASP reported security vulnerabilities.

Domibus 5.0.2 is backward compatible with 5.0.1. The upgrade is not mandatory, but it is highly recommended.

You can find more information about the release on this page.

For more information, please contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.

The eDelivery Building Block | Domibus

eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.

Domibus is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery AS4 Access Point for the interoperable, secure and reliable exchange of data. It is based on the eDelivery AS4 profile, an open technical specification for the secure, web-based, payload-agnostic exchange of data or documents.

The image used in this article is by Kevin Ku from Unsplash

The European Commission launches the Once-Only Hub

This Hub is a platform where national teams from the EU Member States (Implementers) will work to realise the Once-Only Technical System, which implements the Once-Only Principle.

It is also a resource for journalists, academics, students, interested parties and citizens who want to learn more about the Once-Only Technical System and the ‘Once-Only’ principle.

The Once-Only Technical System (OOTS) enables the sharing of information between public administrations across borders between EU countries. It is cross-sectorial and can be expanded beyond the current scope of life events set out in the Single Digital Gateway Regulation (EU) 2018/1724.

The Once-Only Technical System the technical and operational specifications of the technical system are laid out in the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1463.

Notably for the Once-Only Technical System, the Member States will use the eID building block to authenticate users from different countries, and the eDelivery building block for the automated cross-border sharing of data (legally referred to as “evidence”), achieving maximum efficiency games.

You can learn more about the Once-Only Technical System on the Once-Only Hub.

eDelivery PKI and SML Services: latest updates

Migration of the eDelivery Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) from its incumbent certification authority to CommisSign-2, the certification authority of the European Commission, is ongoing. All owners of active PKI domains have signed the updated General Terms and Conditions (GTC) document, thus fulfilling the pre-condition for their domains to be able to request certificates from the new provider. Currently, 283 certificates are left to migrate to the new certification authority.  

The project owners are advised to encourage their users to migrate to the new CommisSign-2 certificates by the end of January 2023, as in early 2023, all certificates issued by the previous certification authority will be revoked.  

In the end of October 2022, Service Metadata Locator (SML) 4.2 was installed in the SML Service of the European Commission. SML 4.2 was released in October 2022 and includes a number of new features and fixed bugs.  

For more information on eDelivery PKI and SML Services, don’t hesitate to contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.  

The eDelivery Building Block | PKI service | SML service 

eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange. 

The eDelivery PKI service enables issuance and management of the digital certificates used on the deployed eDelivery components, e.g., between eDelivery Access Points (AP) and Service Metadata Publishers (SMP), to ensure confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation of the data moving across systems. 

In its capacity of Solution Provider of the eDelivery Building Block, the European Commission makes available a PKI service to organisations participating in eDelivery-based projects operated by the EU and EEA public administrations. Such public administrations first have to establish themselves as PKI domain owners in relationship to the service. The organisations who are authorised by the PKI domain owner to be part of their domain can then use the eDelivery PKI service to obtain digital certificates. The use of the eDelivery PKI is optional, policy domains may choose to use any other PKI service or mutual trust mechanism. 

The eDelivery SML service uses DNS (Domain Name System) lookups to find information concerning a given participant in a message exchange network. This approach does not need a single, central server to run the discovery interface (with its associated single point of failure). Instead, the use of the DNS makes it highly resilient. At runtime, the SML uses decentralised DNS for load balancing of requests, thus supporting a full European-wide upscaling of performance. Since eDelivery interfaces with the global DNS system, the SML can virtually operate 24/7/365. In case of failure, participants would still be able to discover each other based on the information stored on the DNS. 

The current eDelivery SML Service is based on the sample implementation of the SML software maintained by the European Commission. 

  

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash  

eDelivery presented at Open Peppol Cross-Community Meeting

On 3 November 2022, news about the eDelivery Building Block was presented at the Open Peppol Cross-Community Meeting in Brussels. The meeting celebrates the 10-year anniversary of OpenPeppol and was the community's first face-to-face meeting since 2019. The eDelivery presentation provided an update about the building block's current status and medium-term plans. The project officer in charge of eDelivery highlighted the changes brought by the Digital Europe Programme, including the end of eDelivery specific grants, and the upcoming security changes to the eDelivery AS4 and SMP profiles.

Do not hesitate to visit eDelivery User Community page to learn more about the presentation delivered in this event.

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.

The eDelivery Building Block

eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software, and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.

Photo by Monika Kokstaite