cisdal message gateway

fox glove The Cisdal Message Gateway is an extension to the Hermes 2.0 Message Service Handler (MSH). The Hermes 2.0 MSH is an open project sponsored by the Center for for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development providing ebMS 2.0 and AS2 messaging. It is designed to allow secure and reliable message exchange between trading partners over the Internet.

Cisdal provide full support for the Hermes 2.0 Message Gateway, along with a set of extensions designed to simplify integrating your existing internal systems with the Message Gateway.

The Cisdal Message Gateway is ideally suited to any organisation required to use ebXML or AS2 messaging as a result of its adoption by a Trading Partner. It allows you to abstract away the complications of ebXML, and instead focus on the business information being sent and received.

The Cisdal Message Gateway offers the following features:

  • A simple Web Services based interface for sending synchronous or asynchonous messages to Trading Partners.
  • The ability to treat asynchonous responses to your messages from Trading Partners as synchronous responses by your internal applications.
  • The ability to receive messages through a variety of interfaces (such as JMS, EJBs and Web Services).
  • The ability to treat message payloads as simple strings of data rather that files. This is ideally suited to applications exchanging XML documents.
  • Database backed logging of all messages sent and received, along with automatic correlation of asynchronous responses to their original requests.
  • The ability to upload CPA (Collaboration Protocol Agreements) documents to automatically configure partnership definitions.
  • A Web Service interface for querying messages based on a range of criteria.
  • An extendable alerting framework providing notifications on failed messages.
  • A graphical test harness for sending and receiving messages through the gateway.

The Cisdal Message Gateway and the Hermes 2.0 Message Service Handler are both Java Web Applications that can be deployed to any JEE Servlet container supporting Java 1.5 or higher. Both applications support Oracle, MySQL and Postresql databases for data persistence.

In addition to the Cisdal Message Gateway, Cisdal provide the following consulting services to support the Cisdal Message Gateway, and also to ensure the adoption of ebXML within your enterprise runs smoothly. This includes:

  • Full support for the Cisdal Message Gateway and the Hermes 2.0 Message Service Handler.
  • We will work with your Trading Partners to establish the CPA (Collaboration Protocol Agreements) documents required to describe your trading agreements, and ensure these are reflected inside Cisdal Message Gateway.
  • Provide support to integrate your existing systems with the Cisdal Message Gateway.
  • Work with your Trading Partners to test the connectivity between the Cisdal Message Gateway and their Message Service Handler.
  • Development of any required customisations to the Cisdal Message Gateway.
  • Staff training and documentation for the Cisdal Message Gateway and the Hermes 2.0 Message Service Handler.

The Cisdal Message Gateway has been tested against several leading ebMS 2.0 products (such as IBM Partner Gateway) to ensure compliance.

Please contact us for more information.

The Cisdal Message Gateway Installation and User Guide can be downloaded here.

The Cisdal Message Gateway Test Harness can be loaded from here.