eDelivery Interoperability Forum just took place
Another meeting of the eDelivery Interoperability Forum has just happened. Since the relaunch of the Forum in May 2023, the membership has been growing and the eDelivery team is looking forward to welcoming anyone else interested in our Forum meetings (feel free to register here to be part of the network).
After the Forum’s relaunch in May 2023, the eDelivery team has been excited to welcome service providers and software vendors interested in joining Forum meetings! The 3rd meeting took place on 28 November and has been packed with interesting topics.
Notably, the last gathering addressed the community’s feedback from the past meetings. A new presentation of the conformant products and services is one of the actions taken to increase visibility of vendors, enabling end users to choose the best suitable solution for their needs.
The most important topic, and this year’s highlight, was the finished public consultation on new versions of AS4 and SMP technical specifications: AS4 2.0 and SMP 2.0. These are open specifications that enable secure and interoperable exchange of data using web services, and they are at the core of the eDelivery building block. The eDelivery team is still working on analysing the received feedback and is planning to have another meeting with the Forum members in Q1 2024 (tentative), as well as the launch of a second public consultation for updated iteration of draft specifications next year.
The news about eDelivery contribution to third-part open-source projects has been very welcomed and appreciated by the community. eDelivery has contributed to the code in 3 different repositories – santuario, WS-WSS4J and the apache-cxf. Community can learn about the contributions to the respective libraries here – for santuario, WS-WSS4J and the apache-cxf.
The presentation about a new digital ecosystem using eDelivery closed the 28 November meeting. The Forum members were happy to learn more about the electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI) Exchange Environment and what opportunities this could bring to them.
Those who are interested can find the slides used at the eDelivery Interoperability Forum meeting on the events page.
Finally, the eDelivery team is excited to announce that the date for the next eDelivery Interoperability Forum has been set to 18 April 2024 at 10:30 CEST! As always, the meeting will take place in virtual format and will not be recorded. Find out more (along with the registration link) on this page. As in the past, the next meeting will be crafted around the needs of the eDelivery community! It will be an invaluable chance for eDelivery service and solution providers to express their views, suggestions and best practices around future activities organised by the team. At eDelivery, we are looking forward to growing the number of participants to the Forum! If you are a service and solutions provider and would like to be a point of contact for the Forum, apply here. More information on past editions of the eDelivery Interoperability Forum is available here.
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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.