I've got a very old copy of the database. Let me get my company's credentials 
for HL7 and download the latest copy of it.
Unfortunately we are a mac & linux shop and I'll have to go through the same 
hoops in a VM to do the transition.

R,
rahul

On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:38 PM, James Agnew <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rahul,
> 
> I actually gave this a shot once, basically exporting all of the data into a 
> MySQL database and then running the queries against that. Unfortunately 
> basically none of the data queries worked at all and after spending a while 
> trying to clean them up I eventually gave up.
> 
> I'm actually not sure what HL7's movement to open the specification will mean 
> to the database. At least as far as I have seen there have been no 
> announcements about what will happen with it, but if I were to guess I would 
> say they won't be making it available for free. If anyone knows either way 
> I'd love to hear about it- It would be great to try and find a volunteer to 
> have another go at that conversion. Might actually make a good student 
> project now that I think about it.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Rahul Somasunderam 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to export MS Access to a SQL Dump and then use any other 
> database (H2 or HSQLDB) such that the build can be performed easily?
> It has been a problem so long because of the way HL7 licensed their database. 
> Now that they mentioned they are open sourcing their database, would it be 
> any easier?
> 
> R,
> rahul
> 
> On Mar 12, 2013, at 9:08 AM, James Agnew <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Just a quick note to anyone who is wondering where HAPI 2.1 is. At this 
> > point there are no remaining showstoppers blocking release, so we should be 
> > out very soon. I would say that it should be safe for anyone doing new 
> > development to begin using the 2-1-beta1 release, with the expectation that 
> > they can migrate to the final shortly.
> >
> > If anyone is curious, the only thing blocking our release is an issue with 
> > the structures JAR builds. The HAPI structures are generated using the HL7 
> > database, which is an Access DB. The hapi-sourcegen project reads this DB 
> > using the Microsoft Access ODBC bridge, which they have only ever released 
> > for 32 bit windows (grrrr) so the HAPI build is done on a Windows XP 
> > virtual machine. At this point, the structures JARs are generating so many 
> > files in each JAR that we are hitting some kind of "maximum line length" 
> > limit in XP because of the way that the Maven Compiler plugin uses Javac. 
> > We worked around this in the last release by doing the generation step in 
> > XP and them doing the compile step in OSX, but this was clunky and I feel 
> > like it's bound to fail one day and cause us to release a JAR that is 
> > missing files.
> >
> > The holdup therefore has been trying to diagnose why maven-compiler is 
> > failing. I feel like we're almost there!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > James
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