I work for a small company. Currently we are re-writing our legacy application in c#. There is one part of the application that uses EDI, and I don't know where to look for solutions in the .net world. I have heard about BIZTALK but not sure as to if that is the solution. Also there is no BIZTALK EXPRESS edition like SQL SERVER EXPRESS EDITION. In one of the dotnet podcasts I heard a compelling case for Microsoft to put out a Developer Edition for BIZTALK. Can someone shed some more light on this issue? Appreciate any help.
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EDI is simply a "standard" way to format text files with various business information like orders, invoices, bills of lading etc.
It is unlikely that there would be any specific .NET component for them, because although there is a "standard" defined for EDI it is interpreted slightly differently by every company that uses it.
The standard comprises "business rules", like "you should respond with an 810 document file when you recieve an 850 document file ... as well as the basic file formats of those documents.
The Wikipedia article explains it pretty thoroughly ...
Ron
Ron Savage
2009-04-05 05:22:44
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It would be very useful for Microsoft to provide an express edition of Biztalk. I don't think this puts them to any disadvantage to Sun's JCAPS offering, which is perhaps a Java equivalent to Biztalk. The last version of caps I saw utilized glassfish.
Scott Hoffman
2009-05-20 19:25:23