UBL 2.0 (OASIS Standard) available in GEFEG.FX
UBL 2.0 (OASIS Standard) is now available for implementation testing in GEFEG.FX. Shortly after UBL 2.0 (OASIS Standard) has been made available for public testing by the OASIS UBL TC very recently, the UBL data models and schemas have been imported into GEFEG.FX.
As a user of GEFEG.FX, you will be able to use the comfortable GEFEG.FX browser which displays UBL 2.0 in a human readable form. View the complete data models and schemas, also including CCTS, read the notes and descriptions or view the structure of the elements. To evaluate the design criteria and components of UBL, GEFEG.FX is one of the most suitable software currently available on the market.
New, and revised versions of UBL will also be made available to GEFEG.FX users after their release.
The following GEFEG.FX variants support viewing, editing, specifying and validating UBL 2.0 as well as developing custom profile schemas: GEFEG.FX XML, GEFEG.FX XML-UML, GEFEG.FX Professional+, GEFEG.FX Premium.
UBL 1.0 (OASIS Standard) available in GEFEG.FX
A documentation of the UBL 1.0 (OASIS Standard) including   - Hierarchical Message View   - Element Details   - Component View   - UML Class Diagram is available on our website. Please click here.
UBL Reader - Special UBL variant of GEFEG.FX
GEFEG has built the UBL Reader, a specialized reader variant of its documentation and testing software GEFEG.FX. This variant has been designed to offer easy access and view of UBL schemas and data models. It includes UBL 1.0 (OASIS Standard) and uDT models as approved and published by the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee.
The UBL Reader can be downloaded for FREE from the GEFEG web site!
Please click here for more information on the UBL Reader.
UBL - History and Facts
With the emergence of XML for Electronic business, a variety of different XML business standards came into being. Global standardization for business communication as it was achieved before by UN/EDIFACT played less than a secondary role. The advantages of XML ruled the scene. Meanwhile the first enthusiasm is followed by a more realistic view as the number of companies that are on the verge of installing XML for their electronic business applications increases.
The Universal Business Language is the long looked-for attempt to achieve global and universal standardisation of XML schemas for common business documents across the industries. A workable XML business language has to find the right balance between the opposed requirements of what a company defines as their specific needs and the general requirements which enable different companies in different business sectors to broaden their electronic commerce activities, for example by extending it to small and medium enterprises. UBL clearly bears this in mind for their development work.
UBL has defined the deliverables and the milestones for their objective of a universal and ubiquitous business language. Among the building blocks of UBL the so-called Core Components have been regarded as absolutely essential to an XML business language. Core Components are a collection of basic business information structures. They are used to define business information entities in a consistent and reliable way by applying semantic roles to Core Components. For example the core component Party will be used for the definition of a BuyerParty and a SellerParty. Another of the main building blocks are basic XML messages - a set of XML business schemas - with reusable components. As a whole these building blocks of the Universal Business Language enable companies for interoperable business communication around the world.
In charge of the UBL developments is the OASIS UBL Technical Committee (TC). It is part of the ebXML activities which are hosted under the umbrella of UN/CEFACT, the United Nations organisation for the standardisation and advancement of Electronic Data Interchange, and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). As a nonprofit initiative UBL is openly accessible for everyone via the OASIS web page. UBL OASIS TC has been supported by many XML and EDI professionals right from the start so that UBL incorporates their joint knowledge and experience.