The Business Information Conformance Statement specifications define information constraints for service information exchanged by business-to-business (B2B) communications in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment.

The Business Information Conformance Statement (BICS) 2 specifications describe the core XML framework (BICS 2 core framework) and three constraint mechanisms:

• W3C XML Schema Constraint Mechanism (WXSCM) specification defines W3C XML Schema as a BICS constraint mechanism.
• Schematron Schema Constraint Mechanism (SSCM) specification defines Schematron assertion schema as a constraint mechanism.
• MIME Constraint Mechanism (MCM) specification defines the MIME type system as a constraint mechanism.

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You can still view the previous version of this specification:
Business Integration -- Information Conformance Statements (BI-ICS), the BI-ICS specification (January 2004)

Resources

• Service information constraints with BICS 2 (developerWorks, October 2005): See how IBM's Business Information Conformance Statement (BICS) 2 specification works and how it has changed as a result of industry feedback.
  
  
• Business Information Conformance Statements for Java (BICS4J): Download IBM's alphaWorks implementaion.
  
  
• BICS Forum: Discuss BICS and its direction.
  
  
• The developerWorks XML and SOA and Web services zones: Find out more about the technologies covered on in this article.
  
  
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM: Learn more about this flexible, robust infrastructure for modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing business processes for today's on demand business environment.
  
  

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