XML Standard for B2B Integration

Hi B2B Gurus-
One of our client is looking at implementing a B2B solution using Oracle B2B to send and receive business documents with its Trading Partners (Suppliers and Banks).
The typical transactions as of now would be:
1. Purchase Order Outbound to Trading Partners
2. Advances Shipment Notice and Invoice Inbound from Trading Partners
3. Payment Files Outbound to the banks
The client will not be using EDI or Rosettanet standards. They are looking for XML standards ONLY.
I understand that Oracle B2B supports cXML, xCBL, ebXML, OAGIS etc
Can anybody please suggest which XML standard is the best for the above mentioned B2B transactions.
Please note that the back-end ERP system in our case is Oracle E-Business Suite R12.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Dibya

Hello Dibya,
RoesttaNet is a XML based standard but if I am right then your client does not want to use it.
Deciding a document protocol in B2B communication is mutual agreement based process between the trading partners, so I think your client should first check with it's TP's that which document protocol they would prefer.
Still if I have to give personal opinion, then I would go for ebMS because it has support for SOAP standard using which you may even connect with web-services of your TP (if they do not have a B2B product). Moreover, I can define my own message structure in ebMS (obviously with my TP's ack) and have CPP/CPA import functionality. There is also a PING-PONG message facility in ebMS to test connectivity between TP's. Apart from this there is also ActionName based agreement identification support for ebMS.
I would suggest you to ask your client to discuss it with their TP's and then take a decision.
Regards,
Anuj

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