Re: [ebxml-dev] Hermes Celebrate 5th Birthday with New H2O Launch

[Ladislav Urban <ladislav.urban@webswell.com>]

Hello Patrick,
firstly let me congratulate to the release of new Hermes.

Our Webswell Connect extends functionality of Hermes it includes 
1) Reading and processing of complete CPAs from Registry/Repository, (it
is important for distributed projects )
2) Reading AS2 Partnerships from Registry/Repository
3) EDI style control files for reading and writing messages
4) Installer that includes tomcats, Registry/Repository, database
systems and supporting tools
5) Settings of all ports and parameters inside installer

and other features

We would like to cooperate with you more closely and donate some of our
functionality to Hermes.
When do you plan to release Hermes on CVS?
Thank you for your answer
 
Ladislav


On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 15:43 +0800, Patrick Yee wrote:
> Hermes Celebrates 5th Birthday with New H2O Launch
> 
> Hong Kong SAR, Peoples Republic of China - 1 June 2007 - Center for
> E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University of Hong
> Kong (HKU) celebrates Hermes’ 5th birthday with the launch of a new
> open source version of Hermes Messaging Gateway v2.0 (H2O). Thanks to
> project funding from the HKSAR Government's Innovation & Technology
> Commission, Hermes is available as free, open source to users and
> developers of business-to-business integration and Electronic Data
> Interchange (EDI). 
> 
> First version released in June 2002, Hermes has since become a popular
> and awards-winning open source solution for organizations to exchange
> information in ebXML Messaging (ebMS) or Applicability Specification 2
> (AS2) formats with their business partners. Developers and users from
> over 80 economies around the world have downloaded and adopted Hermes.
> The software won the Best Infrastructure and Communication Application
> of the Linux Business Award 2005 as well as Certificates of Merit of
> the Asia-Pacific ICT Awards 2004 and HK Computer Society IT Excellence
> Award 2004. 
> 
> The latest version, H2O (H-two-oh), replaces two predecessors (H2CE
> and H2EE) with additional tools and a full set of documentation to
> make configuration and administration even more easily. It includes an
> installation wizard, web-based GUI admin tool, message status query
> capabilities, and documentation of an installation guide,
> configuration guide, admin tool user guide as well as the plug-in
> development guide. 
> 
> H2O and its source code
> (http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/product/download/download_h2o/) are released under GNU General Public License Version 2. Users and developers can get community support through the mailing list cecid-hermes2@googlegroups.com. Professional support is provided by CECID’s VARs and can be requested through email enquiry@cecid.hku.hk. 
> 
> Completed the AS2 Interoperability Testing AS-1Q05 with 29 other
> participants (http://ebusinessready.org/as2.html) organized by U.S.
> leading testing company, Drummond Group Inc., Hermes 2 enables
> real-time communication through HTTP or HTTPS to transmit data over
> the Internet. Besides, it provides security for the transport payload
> through Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME),
> digital signatures and encryption, while reliability and
> non-repudiation are achieved through the use of receipts. 
> 
> The AS2 standard, commonly used in supply chains by large retailers,
> manufacturers and suppliers, is often regarded as the “EDI over
> Internet” standard. Hermes 2 facilitates large as well as small
> enterprises to exchange EDI or other business-to-business data with
> their partners and customers. It operates as a Java web application.
> The ebXML Messaging Service (ebMS) and AS2 messaging capabilities are
> facilitated by the corresponding plugins, which can be easily
> developed by users through Hermes’ Simple Plugin Architecture
> specification. The messaging operation requires a database (PostgreSQL
> or Oracle 9i or above) with JDBC connectivity to keep track of the
> messaging status. 
> 
> 
> About CECID (www.cecid.hku.hk)
> Established in January 2002, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure
> Development (CECID) at the University of Hong Kong conducts e-commerce
> research and development with the vision of helping organizations
> increase their competitiveness in the global economy. CECID develops
> e-commerce enabling technologies, participates in important
> international e-commerce initiatives, as well as supports e-commerce
> standardization for Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region. With
> projects primarily funded by the Hong Kong Government's Innovation and
> Technology Commission, CECID also takes on the mission to transfer
> knowledge and technology to the community. Besides organizing forums
> and seminars, the Center licenses its R&D results through the
> University of Hong Kong to IT industry. Its acclaimed e-commerce
> technology, Hermes, has penetrated over 80 economies and won the Best
> Infrastructure and Communication Application of the Linux Business
> Award 2005 as well as Certificates of Merit of the Asia-Pacific ICT
> Awards 2004 and HK Computer Society IT Excellence Award 2004. 
> 
> PR Contacts for Press and Analysts
> Dorris Tai (cwtai@cecid.hku.hk)
> Business Manager
> Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID)
> Dept. of Computer Science
> The University of Hong Kong
> Tel: +852 2859 2818
> Fax: +852 2547 4611 
> URL: http://www.cecid.hku.hk
> 
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