An e-Business Oriented Pattern Language

We describe a pattern language for e-business applications. The proposed language provides a flexible way of designing e-business applications. It encompasses the major building blocks and elements that compose e-business applications. It is constructed from a set of patterns. The proposed language increases the reusability advantage relying on proven solutions to recurring design problems in the e-business domain. Moreover, it relies on the XML industry standard so that the designed applications can be interfaced and communicated with other application