X.commerce announces the general availability of the X Fabric

X.commerce empowers developers to create the future of commerce sounds like a bold statement, but eBay firmly believes they are in a position to deliver on that promise. That was how Neal Sample, former X.commerce CTO, started his introduction to the X.commerce platform at the Innovate Developer Conference 2011 in San Francisco.

X.commerce is supposed to bring together the technology assets and developer communities of eBay, PayPal and Magento to support eBay Inc.’s mission of enabling commerce. Through this ecosystem of developers, partners and tools, merchants now have access to open commerce technology to scale and grow their businesses.

7 months after the initial launch of X.commerce, the general availability of the X Fabric (which uses XOCL, i.e. X.commerce Open Commerce Language to describe business processes) has been announced today with the following features:

• Performance and scale – a number of usability performance, availability and guaranteed delivery enhancements
• General availability – fabric is now available for message delivery in the Sandbox and production environments are available to ALL developers and partners
• Onboarding – developers and partners can log in to devportal.x.com to create and register their capabilities on the Fabric
• Sandbox Enhancements – each capability is now able to communicate with other capabilities in our Sandbox environment
• Promotion to production – the capability can be promoted to the production environment once it is ready to take live traffic

Here’s another top level introduction to X.commerce from Matthew Mengerink’s (VP & General Manager X.Commerce) keynote at Magento Imagine on April 24, 2012.

If you’re a developer you might want to head over to the X.commerce Developer Portal in order to register and manage authentication credentials and test merchant accounts or check out the XOCL Github Repository.