Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with XML and Web services research firm ZapThink, said the news is major because ebXML has been struggling to reach adoption among major companies. The backing of ISO will go a long way to helping to establish ebXML as a viable set of specifications, Schmelzer told internetnews.com.

“For a while, non-ebXML Web Services-based specs were gaining the limelight for B2B integration, but it seems that ebXML has gotten some significant traction, especially among government and European companies. The result is that the future looks like it will be more of a hybrid between the Web Services and ebXML approaches.”

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