A survey and comparison of business-to-business e-commerce frameworks

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is booming thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet, which dwarfs the coverage of EDI VANs. B2B e-commerce needs to seamlessly and dynamically handle the interactions among a vast variety of organizations without ad hoc and proprietary integrations. A number of B2B e-commerce frameworks have emerged as a result. In this paper we present a brief survey and a comparison of some of these frameworks.