CECID H2O ebMS - Community Site Launched

The Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have announced the launch of Hermes Messaging Gateway v2.0 (H2O) Community Website to enhance support services to users.

In just two months since its release the H2O messaging system has already been downloaded and adopted by developers and users from over 40 economies around the world.

In response to such overwhelming support CECID has launched a new Community Site to channel the valuable feedback received daily via the mailing list cecid-hermes2@googlegroups.com into a formal resource center for adopters.

The Community Site provides technical information and articles covering everything from configuration hints and tips, fixes and patches, through to general usage of H2O on different platforms.

The first version of Hermes was released in 2002 and has since become a popular and award-winning open source solution for organizations to exchange information in ebXML Messaging (ebMS) or Applicability Specification 2 (AS2) formats with their business partners. The latest version, H2O (H-two-oh), replaces two predecessors (H2CE and H2EE) with additional tools and a full set of documentation to make configuration and administration easy.

H2O and its source code (http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/product/download/download_h2o/) are released under GNU General Public License Version 2.

CECID’s VARs offer professional support services. For more information, requests can be sent to enquiry@cecid.hku.hk.

Latest freebXML Registry V3.1 released

Delivered after one year of community refinements and enhancements the new version 3.1 provides a near, feature complete implementation of Registry Full conformance profile for the OASIS ebXML Registry 3.0 standard [ebRR] (the only missing feature is support for Single Sign On (SSO) based on the Registry SAML Profile).

The freebXML Registry also provides a feature complete implementation of level 1 conformance profile of the Java API for XML Registries API [JAXR].

Also included are implementation of two profiles of ebXML Registry:
- ebXML Registry Profile for WSDL
- ebXML Registry Profile for WSRP Remote Portlets

Support and consulting services are available from several companies - more details available from the project site: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=726337

Webswell Connect V2.1 SOA and ebXML solution released

The Webswell Connect 2.1, an open source SOA, ebXML and AS2 integration tool was released Friday. The new release has a selection of improvements and new features including:

1. Built-in support for HSQLDB as a alternative database system to the original PostgreSQL.

2. The included Webswell Dispatcher has been optimized to work much faster including improved handling ofAS2 and ebXML Registry Repository messages.

3. Upgraded installer with improved MS Windows platform installation process.

Webswell Connect is a complete framework for e-business based on the ebXML, AS2 and SOA standards. It is used as an integration framework for heterogeneous business environments and for integration to legacy systems. With its messaging and Registry features it is a basic building block for enabling SOA solutions.

Webswell Connect is all open source software and licensed under GNU GPL. Commercial technical support is available from Webswell Inc. For more details see http://www.webswell.com/

HL7 V3 Transport Specification for review and ballot using ebXML ebMS and CPPA

The new work in ebXML for messaging and CPPA is garnering more adoption work and for good reason. A mature framework for B2B that is also able to offer abstraction layer support of definitions for SOA transport services across Web service exchanges as well.

You can find the HL7 documents for the latest release here:
http://www.hl7.org/v3ballot2007sep/html/infrastructure/transport/transport-ebxml.htm

This HL7 document is being put forth for review and consideration for a committee ballot as a normative standard.