Choice of eDelivery conformant solutions ever larger
The number of solutions joining the eDelivery AS4 and SMP conformance lists has been constantly growing in the recent years. For instance, in 2021 one solution has passed the Conformance Testing for the eDelivery AS4 profile and one has done so for the eDelivery SMP profile. In 2022, three solutions have joined the list of eDelivery AS4 conformant solutions, and two more were added to the list of eDelivery SMP conformant ones.
The eDelivery Building Block is keen to extend the list of conformant solutions to include more ‘eDelivery as a service’ entries in addition to ‘eDelivery as a product’ ones. This would help better meet the diverse needs of the users by offering them more versatile and tailored services. Additionally, a more significant presence of service providers would better cater for the SME market, for which software as a service is often a less costly and time-consuming approach compared to self-hosting.
The eDelivery AS4 profile is an open specification for the secure and payload-agnostic exchange of data using web services. It is based on ebMS 3.0 and AS4 standards of OASIS/ISO. In order to be recognized conformant, the Access Points are currently tested against the eDelivery AS4 - 1.15 specification, which was published in November 2020, replacing the previously used AS4 - 1.14 version. As of today, a total of 30 solutions have passed or are in the process of passing the conformance testing according to the eDelivery AS4 profile.
The eDelivery SMP profile is an open specification for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network. It is based on the OASIS Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) Version 1.0 standard. The SMP is currently being tested against the eDelivery SMP - 1.10 specification, which was published in May 2018, replacing the obsolete e-SENS SMP - 1.9.0. A total of ten solutions have by now passed or are in the process of passing the conformance testing according to the eDelivery SMP profile.
The latest releases and the test reports of all listed solutions along with the vendors’ contact details can be found in the eDelivery Services webpage (check here for eDelivery AS4 conformant solutions and here for eDelivery SMP conformant ones). More details about the two eDelivery profiles are available in the corresponding pages of the European Commission’s DIGITAL website (eDelivery AS4 Profile and eDelivery SMP Profile).
For more information, please contact us via our portal or by e-mail: EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu.
The eDelivery Building Block | Conformance testing 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 Conformance Testing service allows software vendors and service providers to verify that an implementation of the eDelivery Access Point and/or SMP specifications is conformant to the relevant eDelivery specifications.