ARCHITECTUREGUIDELINES.PDF

ARCHITECTURE GUIDELINES For Trans-European Telematics Networks for Administrations Annexes Version 7.1 European Commission Author: Enterprise DG Enterprise DG Interchange of Data between Administrations Programme Brussels, September 2004 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 DOCUMENT STRUCTURE 4 1.2 CLASSIFICATION OF THE ST ANDARDS 4 1.3 REFERENCES 4 1.4 PROPRIETARY PRODUCTS5 2 GENERIC SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS 5 2.1 INTRODUCTION 5 2.2 TESTAII 5 2.2.1 Technical approach 6 2.3 CIRCA 7 2.3.1 Technical approach 7 2.4 PKICUG9 2.4.1 Introduction 9 2.4.2 Technical approach 9 3 GENERAL SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS 10 3.1 DATA PRESENTATION AND EXCHANGE 10 3.1.1 Interfaces 10 3.1.2 Character sets 11 3.1.3 Collective authoring 11 3.1.4 File type formats 12 3.1.5 File compression 15 3.2 DATA INTEGRATION16 3.2.1 XML -based standards 18 3.2.2 EDI -based standards21 3.3 MIDDLEWARE 22 3.3.1 Web Services22 3.3.2 Distributed Application Architecture 24 3.3.3 Remote Procedure Call27 3.3.4 CORBA 28 3.3.5 Internal Interfaces 28 3.3.6 EbXML 28 3.4 INTERCONNECTION SERVICES 30 3.4.1 File and message transfer protocols 30 3.4.2 Message transport and securit