| Abstract: |
Semantic Interoperability in the Spotlight! E-business drivers are forcing the pace of standards evolution. For years CBDi Forum has been advising that technical interoperability issues will rapidly become less important, and that the business semantic issues will become the primary areas of concern and opportunity. In the heat of the CORBA versus COM versus JavaBean debate, we might have sometimes seemed to be missing the plot, but CBDi Forum has consistently maintained that the technology issues are the easiest to overcome. Over the past year, as application integration capabilities have evolved, and our attention has focused on e-commerce and supply chains, it has become obvious that the |