The Open XML Court Interface (OXCI) consortium of state courts intends to produce a middleware implementation for electronic filing for use within all levels of state courts for the receipt, transmission, and validation of electronic filings, court orders, and associated data.

The middleware will provide a uniform open source implementation of an Electronic Filing Manager (EFM) in compliance with the OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing specifications.

It is intended that this middleware will be made available nationally to courts and other vendors as the bridge between an electronic filing front-end application (provided by the court, a vendor, or a service provider) and the court’s case management and document management systems.

The OXCI EFM is based on the OpenEFM.