Thanks for the MWB URL.
Any experience with NIST Message Maker, anyone ?
cheers,
mehul
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:17, James Agnew<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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