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The Reliable Asynchronous Messaging Profile (RAMP) 1.0 is a profile, in the fashion of the WS-I profiles, that enables, among other things, basic B2B integration scenarios using Web services technologies.
The effective use of standards continues to be a proven method of addressing business challenges in a consistent manner. Aggregating standards usage through Profiles provides a method of guidance for the consistency in their application. WS-I has limited the scope of their profiles to adopted industry standards. However, businesses need to solve challenges which can only be addressed through emerging standards. The RAMP Profile represents the first successful effort to combine emerging Web services standards with vertical industry standards, semantics, and expertise to develop a prescriptive roadmap to implement systems common to all players in an industry. This fills an extremely important marketplace void in providing a method to implement a collection of standards that address areas including reliable messaging, security, and ecommerce, versus simply making the standards available.
| Description | Date | Access method |
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| Reliable Asynchronous Messaging Profile (RAMP) 1.0 (PDF, 200 KB) | August 2005 | HTTP download |
You can still view the previous versions of these specifications by clicking on the following link:
- Ramp profile (PDF, August 2005)
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Introducing the RAMP Profile: Find out what changed since the profile was first published and learn about the reasons for those changes.
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IBM RAMP Toolkit: Take the RAMP profle on a 90-day test drive with the IBM RAMP toolkit on Alphaworks.
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IBM WS-I portal: Find out more about IBM's involement in and committment to WS-I and interoperability.
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IBM Basic B2B Profile: Compare the RAMP Profile to its first draft (April 2005).
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IBM Basic B2B Profile: Read Chris' first paper on the IBM B2B Profile (first draft of the RAMP profile) and discover the beginnings of this profile (April 2005).
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Chris Ferris's blog on Web services, distributed computing, and interoperability.
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Tom Glover's blog on Web Services Interoperability.
