Eurostat B.3 Alignment to SDMX 2.1 SDMX RI User Group Luxembourg, September 2013

What the alignment is about  New standards, SDMX-ML format  Backward compatibility to previous format  User interface impact to support 2.0 and 2.1  WS impact (Restful)  WSDL normative in 2.1 (recommended only in 2.0)  New error message, time semantics  Nb of classes… see analysis doc  Effort estimation Eurostat 2

SDMX v2.1 Alignement  Alignment order shall be respected 1.MA (including MSDB) 2.DR, SR 3.WS 4.Web Client and TC  Depending on the tools alignment it impacted only the business layer (model) but in some cases as well the user interface (GUI) Eurostat 3

SDMX-RI Components affected  Data Retriever (DR)  Structure Retriever (SR)  Web Service (WS)  Web Client (WebC)  Mapping Assistant (MA)  Test Client (TC)  Test Auth Config (TAC) Eurostat 4 Remark: All the components above have already been common API integrated

Alignment order 1.MA depends on MSDB schema 2.DR & SR depends on new MSDB schema 3.WS 2.1 depends on DR 2.1 & SR TC and Web Client depend on WS (for testing) 5.TC depends on DR & SR Eurostat 5 Remark: Due to alignment order and dependencies, the components are released together at the same time MA SR DR WS Web Client TC

Example: Web Service  Support of SOAP 1.1 interface according to SDMX v2.1 Web Service guidelines  Support of RESTful interface according to SDMX v2.1 Web Service guidelines  Error handling according to SDMX v2.1 Web Service guidelines Eurostat 6

Example: Web Service (2) Web service alignment dependencies:  Data Retriever  Structure Retriever Use cases & mock-ups  Not applicable for WS Eurostat 7