This activity will be focused on developing and piloting a specification/profile for a Messaging RESTful API to cater for “light application” use cases, complementing the existing CEF eDelivery AS4 profile. The new profile will be built on top of the REST architecture pattern and will adopt technology to support this pattern. This new profile would aim to bring new technological options to the eDelivery building block while maintaining the eDelivery goals of: - Standardized data exchange
- Business-agnostic data exchange
- Secure and reliable data exchange
The new specification would enable the implementation of eDelivery-compliant data exchange benefiting from: - Ease of deployment / installation
- Economy of resources on the client side
- Operation on mobile / personal environments
- Updated options for the data exchange patterns
If successful, the profile could in the future be formally added to the CEF eDelivery building block and eventually included in broader scope initiatives covering new areas for d-GOV.
About the CEF building blocks The CEF building blocks provide basic services which can be reused to enable more complex digital public services offered to citizens, businesses and public administration. They provide reusable tools and services helping to underpin the Digital Single Market, that aims to remove digital regulatory barriers, contributing as much as EUR 415 billion per year to the European economy. The CEF Digital Portal is the home of the CEF building blocks (e.g., eDelivery, eID, eInvoicing, eSignature and eTranslation). It is the one-stop-shop for information about the building blocks. The portal provides access to tools, services and software that can be used in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders. About the CEF eDelivery building blockIn particular, the CEF eDelivery building block helps public administrations and businesses (and indirectly citizens) to participate in eDelivery Messaging Infrastructures which facilitate organisation-to-organisation messaging by enabling their systems to interact with each other in a secure, reliable and trusted way. The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital Programme, is currently promoting the adoption of common standards in the eDelivery Messaging Infrastructures in different policy domains (Business Registers, eJustice, eProcurement, etc.). |