[NTLUG:Discuss] Open Source EDI recommendation needed.

[Paul Ingendorf]

EDI is merely a methodology for information delivery not itself a true
specification.  Thus these exchanges can and do include ftp as well as many
other transport providers regardless of claims made to the contrary.  The
actual transport definitions are dealt with through the EDI syntax.  There
are many forms of these syntaxes which include everything from the Abstract
Syntax Notation you mentioned to more modern forms like XML.  For the linux
community at large creating EDI interfaces is truly akin to child’s play.  A
competent "sysadmin" even somewhat familiar with products like openssl and
basic file io can create secure EDI transactions that can rival packages
like softshore's costing many thousands of dollars.  If you wanted tying an
EDI application using e-mail, postfix can configured relatively painlessly
and securely using tls, pgp, smime, etc...


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Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:13 AM
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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Open Source EDI recommendation needed.


EDI - Electronic Data Interchange


Anyone have recommendations for some EDI software?  There seems to be
several search results for 'EDI' out there on freshmeat, but most of it has
to do with Medical HIPPA compliance stuff.  Is there a 'standard/generic'
EDI program out there?   I'm sorta looking to find at least SOME of the same
features that exist for the Win32 product 'Softshare ECS'
(http://www.softshare.com/software/ecs/ )

The term I hear alot is AS1..only I can't find AS1 on freshmeat. I don't
know
yet if AS1 is a requirement...but I'm still googling for options.

hmm.. I wonder if one could just tie an EDI translator into an email client?
After all, that seems to be essential what EDI transfers do...transmit
encrypted packets via email.


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Richard (posting my ignorance on the net for all to see.  Thanks ntlug
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