Vivansa

Problem Statement

National Customs & Tax authorities (both inside and outside the EU) in charge of offering electronic services to their Economic Operators have to deal with an increasing number of national applications making use of the CCN/CSI infrastructure (owned and operated by the DG TAXUD) to interact with other national authorities, and also with Central Services of the European Commission.

Today, there is no “standard” interface to connect the CCN/CSI infrastructure. The tight coupling with the proprietary CSI API either through the CCN Gateway results in “siloed” systems with strong technical dependencies with CCN. This situation makes the architecture of national Customs & Tax applications rigid, resulting in increasing costs and complexity for their development and maintenance.

The solution: lxr.CCN

lxr.CCN is a simple and robust software connector for CCN/CSI which hides the proprietary aspect of the CSI interface to developers by providing a standard and loosely-coupled Web Service interface.

lxr.CCN is multi-application, i.e. it can be shared by multiple national applications connecting the CCN network, hence allowing to reduce the “siloed” system problematic on the national domain side.

lxr.CCN offers clustering and failover mechanisms to increase the overall resilience of the system (e.g. national applications are not affected by potential unavailability of the local CCN Gateway) is therefore a key component able to participate to a wider Business Continuity Plan (BCP).

lxr.CCN is operable as a standalone component easily deployable into the national environment and delivers a reliable messaging solution as part of a wider JEE and/or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).