I recently took DEDIOUX out of beta and renamed the package OBOE - Open Business Objects for EDI. Below is the OBOE press release that went out yesterday. --- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joe McVerry American Coders, Ltd. Post Office Box 97462 Raleigh, NC 27624 USA 1.919.846.2014 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.americancoders.com Developing Internet EDI Applications Using Open Business Objects for EDI. Raleigh, NC - April 24, 2000 - American Coders, Limited announces the first general release of its product Open Business Objects For EDI (OBOE). OBOE translates between several Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) document formats and EDI/XML files. The package is targeted at legacy EDI users who want to integrate their systems with the Internet quickly and easily using standards-based technology. Features and functions available in the OBOE package: - Extensive set of classes to translate EDI Documents of different formats such as X12 EDIFACT SAP XML/EDI - Methods to transmit EDI using Internet mail protocols. - An Extensible Markup Language (XML) rules file fuels the OBOE object building engine. - Using OBOE's Java-based EDI objects programmers can parse and create EDI documents with Java applications and applets. Open Business Objects For EDI is available with an Open Source license. American Coders, Ltd also offers an Extended Edition version. Extended Edition provides additional classes and methods that validate the structure and content of EDI documents. American Coders, has provided the OBOE beta version, named DEDIOUX, to the Internet community for the past 18 months. During that time over 500 companies and individuals downloaded and evaluated the beta product. By releasing the product with an Open Source license, several companies have provided the package with enhancements, and integrated the program with their own systems. For example, in late March, Mendelson-E-Commerce GMBH of Germany released its product EAGLE. EAGLE uses the DEDIOUX system to convert documents from EDIFact format to SAP and vice-versa. In Chicago, ThoughtWorks Inc. uses DEDIOUX to add EDI integration to enterprise Java systems it is building for its customers. OBOE provides these and other companies the tools necessary to be on the cutting edge of e-commerce and Business-to-Business application development. Joe McVerry, CTO of American Coders says, "by us developing the product with Java and a XML rules based engine our users are able to deliver EDI systems that are truly platform independent and Internet-ready." He goes on to say, "Using an Open Source license allowed us to quickly reach developers and to be more responsive in handling any bugs that may show up." For more information about the product visit the web site at http://www.OpenBusinessObjects.com ### --- Joe McVerry, President and Chief Technical Officer American Coders Ltd. POBox 97462 Raleigh, NC 27624 USA 919.846.2014 AOL-IM: USACoder http://www.americancoders.com Home Of OBOE - Open Business Objects for EDI xBaseJ - xBase Database Engine For Java ======================================================================= To signoff the EDI-L list, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/edi-l%40listserv.ucop.edu/
