Extending Open Source tools with functionality for defining and executing message transformations from EDIFACT to other standards and back requires a good understanding of the UN/EDIFACT Standard.

Hereafter I will briefly explain the UN/EDIFACT standard and discuss the following topics:
- the different elements of the structure
- a description of the structure
- the po

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Interesting article from Infoworld that both validates our beliefs and addresses some of our challenges…


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This Q&A with XAware Chief Architect, Kirstan Vandersluis, "Data Services Mashups Emerge for SOA" , is from SOA News on SearchSOA.com:

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Most CIOs and their enterprise IT organizations, having been burned in the past by very expensive infrastructure software purchases that didn't work out well, have created organizations and processes aimed at preventing such costly "mistakes" from happening again. These organizations and processes are costly in their own right. They invest a lot of time, effort, and money

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Shaun Connolly, who was VP of Product Development for JBoss and recently left Red Hat, visited XAware a couple of weeks ago. We had a chance to show Shaun what we are up to at XAware and had a great time talking about all things SOA and Web 2.0 application infrastructure and open source.

Shaun posted a note about XAware to his blog,

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I have been following a discussion that began a few weeks ago with a blog post by MuleSource CTO Ross Mason titled "JBI Misses the Mark", in which Ross explains why he decided not to implement the JBI (Java Business Integration) spec in the Mule ESB. Ro

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During the evolutionary SOA session at the Denver NFJS Symposium Tour by Neal Ford, I was decidedly convinced that XAware is right on track with the XAware 5.0 open source software.

Neal describes a service as:

• accessible from a variety of "clients" (applications or users)
• coarse-grained, self-contained business function
• sits idle until a

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While reviewing some support questions from our European Office and verifying the new Salesforce AddOn, I decided to grab our Salesforce wsdl and run a few tests. Below are a few snippets of information which might help you while using XAware 5.0.

Complete steps 1 - 3 of the Quick Start Guide to Generate your Salesforce Web Service WSDL.

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XAware's open source data integration software passed the 1,000 downloads per day mark this week, posting more than 1,500 downloads yesterday and more than 1,100 already today.

More than 40,000 RIA, WOA and SOA application developers have now discovered that

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Last week I sent this email to the internal XAware team:

From: Bill Miller
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:31 AM
To: XAware All; XAware XAware
Subject: WOA and SOA

This is a great theme for XAware: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/

It fits very nicely with our re

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