ECGridOS in Action
Wow – NetEDI Ltd. Video’s
11/18/09 Update
It looks like interest in ECGridOS API is heating up, as we expected, with the multi-Tenant Platform Crowd. It makes sense that hosted commerce and logistics platforms that integrate everything else so well, finally see the shortfall in legacy EDI communications as an external service. Why should every new account end with, “good luck with your EDI setup, we will get you a list of VAN partners”, or ” We will call our integration folks to set you up an FTP or AS2 connection to your partners”. With the ECGridOS API, your EDI comms services are part of your UI, desktop, and partner interfaces. Your clients are ready to interconnect and trade as soon as they become part of your SAAS platform family.
2010 will also be a banner year for more developer support, we plan more sample code, more testing widgets, and just a better experience and less hacking for more IDE’s. ECGridOS has never been complex, as API’s go, from a functional perspective. However, one does have to invoke certain functions in the correct order, using valid netowrk ID’s and Session variables. Todd should be able to deliver a few test libraries for Visual Studio and later, others, that will just help you see what’s happening in the partner setups, parcel management, and etc., that will allow a simple go / no-go test for your accounts. Dashboard widgets may come after that, which will be the display indicators for your re-use of said code; using these UI snippets, you can see messages pending, valid interconnects, etc. All of this is source code, so you can modify and tinker. Be patient, it’s all coming in 2010.
Update: More Code Samples coming soon.
Todd has actual code used to build the administrative UI’s for mailbox, user, and account management. Some of this code is going to be released, and will be very educational and, more importantly, reusable in your own applications. Stay tuned, we are week or two away from these samples being released.
For a simple code sample, see here.
Eventually we will create a few screen casts showcasing the use of ECGridOS within popular IDE’s such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.- stay tuned and check back here. Most IDE’s and and code free orchestration editors treat Web Services functions just like local code libraries, so it’s not too difficult to figure out, even I can do it.
Coming sooner that we all think:
- A tour of the API. – The absolute essential ECGridOS calls to manage ECGrid Traffic from your application
- Intermediate ECGridOS API. – Adding spice to your basic applications
- Advanced ECGridOS API. – Even fancy functions need not befuddle.
To kick off our developer relations community effort, Loren Data Corp will be announcing a competition for the most innovative application, mash-up or integration using the ECGridOS API. The award for best apps (First, second, and third place) will be “good stuff”; all working and useful entries passing minor QA will be included in our code library with credits to the programmer.
