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3. FAQs

Service Metadata Locator (SML) is a component of eDelivery that is responsible for Dynamic Service Location: in order to send a message, a sender needs to discover where the information about a receiver is stored. The Service Metadata Locator (SML) serves this purpose, and guides the sender towards this location, which is called the Service Metadata Publisher (SMP).
In other words, the SML is used to add/update/delete information about the participants' SMP location on a Domain Name System (DNS). The SML is centralised.

SML is used in Dynamic discovery mode to help route the messages to the correct recipient.
To ensure that SML is needed for your implementation, an "Assessment Tool " is provided to help you define your needs.

DomiSML being fully developed in Java is therefore portable to any platform supporting the Oracle Java JRE/JDK 7/8.
DomiSML has been deployed and tested successfully on Windows and Linux platforms.
OpenJDK or other manufacturers JRE/JDK are not supported.

DomiSML being fully developed in Java is therefore portable to any platform supporting the Oracle Java JRE/JDK 7/8.
DomiSML has been deployed and tested successfully on Apache Tomcat and Weblogics.
OpenJDK or other manufacturers JRE/JDK are not supported.

DomiSML can use the following database backends:
  • MYSQL 5.x and above
  • Oracle 11 and above
Users of other databases may benefit from the "Support for additional Databases" space driven by the users of eDelivery. Specific patches for supporting additional databases can be developed and published.

Yes, DomiSML is released under the "European Union Public Licence".

The DomiSML artifacts are freely downloadable from the "Digital portal".

The JDBC drivers can be downloaded from the official websites of the manufacturers:


The DomiSML offers SOAP Web Services over HTTP/HTTPS to the SMP’s.
Requests received from the DomiSMP’s are stored the DomiSML backend databases and forwarded to a DNS server in order to update the DNS SML domain. 


The DomiSML will use a compliant DomiSMP certificate that has been issued by a trusted authority.
SMK is the acceptance environment of the DomiSML.
The Service Metadata Locator service exposes three interfaces:
  1. ManageServiceMetadataService: Definition of the service to manage Service Metadata.
  2. ManageBusinessIdentifierService: Definition of the service to manage Participant Identifiers.
  3. BDMSLService: Definition of additional specific services.