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Join us in one of the upcoming eDelivery events

With the transition to the Digital Europe Programme now completed, the eDelivery team is happy to share its planned communication and stakeholder engagement activities for the year to come. After the webinar on how to send an AS4 message with eDelivery AS4 sample software Domibus on 13 July 2022, the team is planning the relaunch of Informal Cooperation Network for eDelivery on 9 September 2022. The network serves as a forum for knowledge sharing, collaborative work and discussing the common challenges and best practices for cross-border eDelivery implementation. It brings together on a regular basis experts nominated by Member States who are involved in the use of eDelivery at the national and European level. We also invite all interested eDelivery stakeholders to write to us in case they would like to be invited to one of the upcoming network meetings to present their work, raise their concerns, questions or issues.

Right afterwards, on 15 September 2022 we’ve already booked our calendars for another live hands-on experience with Domibus for those who missed it in July due to summer holidays. In the following months the eDelivery team will also invite users to learn more about the new features and improvements in the Domibus 5.0 release. The business users are going to have a dedicated webinar as well about eDelivery value proposition, the various possibilities of its implementation, success stories and support activities they could expect from eDelivery team.

The SDG Once Only Technical System community will also be invited to a dedicated event on Once Only Technical System and eDelivery implementation. Further webinars are planned for interested service providers to learn about market opportunities regarding developing AS4 services to offer their customers who would like to use eDelivery Access Points as a service, while the eDelivery team is also planning the relaunch of the eDelivery Interoperability Forum for creators of AS4 conformant software. Current and prospective users of Domibus will be invited next year to several webinars on the options available for their existing IT systems to interact with Domibus as an eDelivery Access Point (web service-, file system- and JMS-based integration). Finally, webinars on dynamic discovery using SMP and SML will follow in 2023.

In case you would like to be informed about our future events and stakeholder engagement activities personally, please do not hesitate to contact us by email EC-DIGITAL-BUILDING-BLOCKS@ec.europa.eu or register here.

The eDelivery Building Block

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.

Domibus is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery AS4 Access Point for the interoperable, secure and reliable exchange of data. It is based on the eDelivery AS4 profile, an open technical specification for the secure, web-based, payload-agnostic exchange of data or documents.

SMP is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) for publishing and retrieving data necessary for an eDelivery party to dynamically configure its system for message exchange with counterparties using eDelivery. It is based on the eDelivery SMP profile, an open technical specification for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network.

SML is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Locator (SML) for an eDelivery party to discover the URLs of other counterparties using eDelivery Access Points and their corresponding metadata. It is based on the eDelivery BDXL profile, an open technical specification for locating Access Points within a network.


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