CEF eDelivery: Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) 4.0 RC 1 Out Now
On 31 January 2018, the European Commission released the sample implementation of the Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) 4.0 Release Candidate 1 of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery building block.
CEF eDelivery helps users to exchange electronic data and documents with one another in a reliable and trusted way.
CEF eDelivery works as a collection of distributed nodes that are conformant to the same technical rules, and therefore capable of interacting with each other. The CEF eDelivery network is based on a distributed model where every participant becomes a node using standard transport protocols and security policies.
This release is conformant with the e-SENS SMP profile based on the OASIS Service Metadata Publishing (BDX SMP) specifications. It is a candidate version that is potentially ready to be released unless significant bugs emerge as a result of tests carried out by the future service clients prior to the release of the final version.
The CEF eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) enables the participants of an eDelivery Messaging Infrastructure to dynamically discover each other's capabilities (Legal, Organisational, and Technical). For this to happen, each participant must publish its capabilities and settings in a SMP.
All the necessary functionality is available to make the SMP operational; such as all necessary operations to manage Service Groups (structures that represent a set of services associated with a specific Participant identifier) and their Service Metadata (structures that represent Metadata about a specific electronic service).