Committee Note 02
23 October 2013
- Specification URIs
- This version:
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-UML/v1.0/cn02/UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-UML/v1.0/cn02/UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.pdf
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-UML/v1.0/cn02/UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.xml (Authoritative)
- Technical Committee:
- OASIS Universal Business Language TC
- Chairs:
- Jon Bosak (bosak@pinax.com), Individual
Tim McGrath (tim.mcgrath@documentengineeringservices.com), Document Engineering Services
- Editors:
- Martin Forsberg (martin.forsberg@ecru.se), Swedish Association of Local Authorities & Regions
G. Ken Holman (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com), Crane Softwrights Ltd.
Tim McGrath (tim.mcgrath@documentengineeringservices.com), Document Engineering Services
Audun Vennesland (Audun.Vennesland@sintef.no), SINTEF
- Related work:
This note is related to Universal Business Language Version 2.1. OASIS Standard. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1.html.
- Status:
This document was last revised or approved by the UBL TC on the above date. The level of approval is also listed above. Check the current location noted above for possible later revisions of this document.
Technical Committee members should send comments on this specification to the Technical Committee’s email list. Others should send comments to the Technical Committee by using the “Send A Comment” button on the Technical Committee’s web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/.
For information on whether any patents have been disclosed that may be essential to implementing this specification, and any offers of patent licensing terms, please refer to the Intellectual Property Rights section of the Technical Committee web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php.
See Appendix A, Release Notes for more information regarding this release package.
- Citation format:
When referencing this note the following citation format should be used:
[UBL-2.1-UML] UBL 2.1 Unified Modeling Language (UML) Alternative Representation Version 1.0. 23 October 2013. OASIS Committee Note 02. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-UML/v1.0/cn02/UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.html.
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The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) defines a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be restricted or extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. Specifically, UBL provides the following:
A suite of structured business objects and their associated semantics expressed as reusable data components and common business documents.
A library of XML schemas for reusable data components such as “Address”, “Item”, and “Payment”—the common data elements of everyday business documents.
A set of XML schemas for common business documents such as “Order”, “Despatch Advice”, and “Invoice” that are constructed from the UBL library components and can be used in generic procurement and transportation contexts.
This Committee Note describes the Universal Business Language version 2.1 common library and document models using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this document, are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
[CCTS] ISO/TS 15000-5:2005 Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML)— Part 5: ebXML Core Components Technical Specification, Version 2.01 (identical to Part 8 of the ebXML Framework)
UBL 2.1 continues the practice, adopted at the beginning of the UBL effort, of creating its normative XML specifications using W3C Schema (XSD) syntax. Alternative representations of the same content are generated directly from the XSD and, with the exception of the UBL 2.1 digital signature extension, are intended to implement the same document instance constraints.
Alternative representations of the same content are technically non-normative.
The UBL 2.1 UML provides a series of class diagrams of the UBL common library and document models using Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems. The model provided uses a UML profile based on the CCTS [CCTS] used to define the business information entities from which the normative XSD syntax is derived.
All diagrams can be found through this initial navigation page:
Appendix A Release Notes
Online and downloadable versions of this release are available from the locations specified at the top of this document.
Release of this package to the public marks the beginning of its first public review of Committee Note 02. The UBL Technical Committee actively solicits input from the user community regarding this release. See Status at the beginning of this document for procedures to be used in submitting comments to the Committee. Note that in accordance with OASIS policies regarding intellectual property, the UBL TC cannot accept input from persons outside the UBL TC (including OASIS members) unless it is submitted via the comment list.
This OASIS Committee Note is published as a zip archive in the http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-2.1-UML/v1.0/cn02/ directory. Unzipping this archive creates a directory tree containing a master DocBook XML file (UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.xml), a generated hypertext version of this file (UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.html), a generated PDF version of this file (UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.pdf), and a number of subdirectories. The files in these subdirectories contain the various components of this release. A description of each subdirectory is given below. Note that while the UBL-2.1-UML-v1.0-cn02.xml file is the “original” of this specification, it may not be viewable in all currently available web browsers.
dbumlDocBook documentation support files
umlfullUBL 2.1 UML diagrams
Note that the files and directories in this package are named such that the contents of this package can be overlaid on top of the unzipped UBL 2.1 package contents without overwriting any files.
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Appendix B Revision History
This is the second release of these UML diagrams. This release reflects the contents of the final version of UBL 2.1, while the first release reflected the contents of an intermediate version.
Appendix C Acknowledgements
The following persons contributed to the work of the committee during the preparation of this work product.
| Oriol Bausa Peris, Individual |
| Kenneth Bengtsson, Alfa1lab |
| Peter Borresen, Document Engineering Services Limited |
| Jon Bosak, Individual |
| Kees Duvekot, RFS Holland Holding B.V. |
| Martin Forsberg, Swedish Association of Local Authorities & Regions |
| G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd. |
| Tim McGrath, Document Engineering Services Limited |
| Andrew Schoka, Individual |
| Paul Thorpe, OSS Nokalva |
| Audun Vennesland, SINTEF |