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STAR Publishes Transport Package 2009 Release 1

Published 2009-02-23 08:00
By STAR (Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail)

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR), a global information technology (IT) standards body for retail automotive and related industries, has published an improved version of the "Transport Package." This new version will help to facilitate interoperability for data exchange with automotive dealerships.

The Transport Package is a set of publications for RSP and OEM software developers and architects to foster interoperable movement of STAR XML BODs. The documents included in the new package are:

    --  STAR Transport Guidelines - a high level requirements and
        recommendations document
    --  STAR Web Services Implementation - implementation details for using the
        Web Services specifications
    --  STAR ebMS Implementation Guidelines - implementation details for using
        the ebXML Message Services specification

The modifications made to the 2009 Release 1 are as follows:

    --  Transport Guidelines
        --  Versioning Change
    --  ebXML Guidelines
        --  Versioning Change
    --  Web Services Specifications
        --  Addition of enhanced PullMessage specifications
        --  Removal of UDDI chapter

About STAR

The Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) organization is the information technology (IT) standards organization for retail automotive and related industries. STAR is leading the effort to implement voluntary IT standards throughout the automotive industry. These standards are designed to support business information needs and provide secure and reliable means for dealers, manufacturers, and retail system providers to communicate. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, STAR is a not-for-profit volunteer organization and its members include dealers, manufacturers and retail system providers. As members, these companies are interested in developing, promoting, and administering voluntary IT standards in the retail automotive industry and improving the effectiveness, timeliness and competitiveness of the IT solutions needed within the retail automotive industry.

For more information about STAR and a list of current members please visit www.starstandard.org.

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For further information, contact Ghezal Khalili at 703-556-8584.

SOURCE STAR (Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail)



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