Adobe announced the acquisition of Yellow Dragon Software--which makes an off-the-shelf Electronic Business eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML) application--and that its technology will be incorporated into Adobe enterprise-level PDF software.

According to an Adobe statement, the company believes this acquisition will not have a "material financial impact" on its financials.

The ebXML language marries data and business-logic processes in an XML framework. Sponsored by the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), ebXML is an open XML specification that provides a standard method for exchanging business messages, conducting trading relationships, communicating data in common terms, and defining and registering business processes.

Adobe will incorporate it all "with the rich presentation and enhanced security capabilities of PDF," the company said.

"The addition of Yellow Dragon is a powerful extension to the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform," said Adobe Senior Vice President Ivan Koon. "We believe Yellow Dragon's technology will enable us to offer XML functionality, which will be mandated by governments and businesses over the next few years. We also gain experienced engineers who are active in the XML standards arena and who helped define the ebXML standard."

Yellow Dragon's site now redirects surfers to a page within Adobe's.