In that case, I'd say HAPI probably is your best bet.
Here's a link to where you can download MWB though:
http://sl.infoway-inforoute.ca/content/dispPage.asp?cw_page=infostand_hl7can_software_e
James
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]>wrote:
> James,
>
> Automating the process of generating messages is what I am trying
> to do. I understand that HAPI by itself will not be able to generate
> the messages as such and that I will need to write some wrapper code
> around it.
>
> Do you have an URL for Message Workbench ? I've looked at
> HL7.org and the following
> http://hl7projects.hl7.nscee.edu/projects/mwb/ but doesn't seem to
> have a downloadable copy of the application.
>
> I will check out the examples you pointed out.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> mehul
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:26, James Agnew<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Mehul,
> >
> > Just to add to the chain and agree with the others, HAPI is probably not
> the
> > most friendly way of generating one-off messages if you're just looking
> to
> > generate a handful of one-time messages. For that purpose, I might
> recommend
> > the excellent 7edit product (http://www.7edit.com), but it's not free.
> > Alternately, Message Workbench can probably help you, although it's a bit
> > daunting to use.
> >
> > That said, if you don't mind the learning curve, or want to automate the
> > process of generating messages, I'm sure HAPI could be made to do what
> you
> > want.
> >
> > Have a look at the "creating a message" examples here for an idea of how
> to
> > get started: http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/devbyexample.html
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mehul Sanghvi <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am posting to this mailing ince this is the only one available and
> >> there isn't a users mailing list.
> >>
> >> What I am looking for is something that I can use to generate HL7
> >> messages and write them to a file in a directory.
> >> The messages will then get picked up by a server process which will
> >> do what it needs to with it. Is this something
> >> that can be done using HAPI ? I do not want to it to generate XML
> >> files, but rather just have the HL7 message written
> >> directly to a file.
> >>
> >> The place I work at currently has a simulator that generates such
> >> messages, but its written using Facile, and not many
> >> people understand it that well. It doesn't support all types of
> >> messages, and since no one understands it well enough
> >> it is difficult to add new message types that we may need. The
> >> company is a Java shop mostly. I want to generate the
> >> messages for the purpose of regressions testing and demonstrations of
> >> our product.
> >>
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >> mehul
> >>
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