I offer no help. just curious. I did do a little EDI work for a cargo airline, we were a startup and built our network to support cargoimp messages for booking space on the aircraft and tracking cargo shipments etc.
What's the application? What types of EDI communications are you going to receive? I would imagine you would start at the top and work your way down, developing, testing and implementing each message type that you might send/receive. How are you going to receive the EDI requests? Is there an industry standard message definition? Is this to support a traditional component of client support? (meaning are they already sending/receiving EDI messages?) Do they have an internal legacy system that communicates using EDI? ??? Question for the group. Could you build a webservice, API (whatecer you want to call it) for your application, which might receive EDI messages to be transformed to XML for application integration? Do I make sense? i know what I mean, just not sure if I use the right words. ie you expose your application with a basic XML based API. defining inputs/outputs. Publish your API. Next step to define how the EDI messages map/transform to your API. I think this way, since it seems the current method of "interchange" would be viw web services, or some sort of web based XML API (not sure if the two are synonomous). EDI generically is legacy method of handling interchange between systems. Once you've defined an API, you could easily create some sort of EDI catcher which translated for the API. Just curious and thinking aloud, hoping to learn more, Eric From: Tony Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Help with EDI formats Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:28:21 -0400 (EDT) Ok, I have a requirement to add some EDI functionalilty into a system we already use (and that I built), but after receiving the EDI specs from the vendor, I'm afraid I don't know what EDI means... The specs talk about loops and HL loops and whatnot. WTF??? Any pointers or primers? I had thought it was just text files. Now I don't know... Positions and Segments, oh my. Tony Schreiber, Senior Partner Man and Machine, Limited mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technocraft.com http://www.simplemessageboard.com ___Free Forum Software for Cold Fusion http://www.is300.net ___________The Enthusiast's Home of the Lexus IS300 http://www.digitacamera.com ______________DigitA Camera Scripts and Tips http://www.linklabexchange.com _____________Miata Link ECU Data Exchange ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
