Re: [ohf-dev] Plan for 2006

[Grahame Grieve <grahame@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We are planning to achieve all these things this year.

great; glad to know someone noticed. it's my role to ask questions
like that in this case.

> Regarding the OHF/Server, our goals are that by the forth quarter we will
> have it ready with some sample code of how to integrate with it using SOAP,
> we are investigating relevant IHE profiles related to it.
>
> > A preliminary implementation of OSGi on the geronimo server
> > architecture will be released in partnership with the equinox

cool, I'll reword that bit.

> The OSGi/Server is using a Web/Servlet Container to load the OSGi bundles
> (for example Jetty and Tomcat) through the Servlets mechanism. We will
> probably use Tomcat for development, but it should be available on any
> container. Implicitly, it will be available on Geronimo which use both
> Jetty and Tomcat as containers, but I guess we don't have to be specific
> about it. Mentioning the Geronimo server at first is my fault since I
> thought of making the integration through its GBeans. Finally, it was
> decided to go with the (more generic) Web Container approach. By the way
> the Eclipse ECF project is also starting to use this technology which is
> great since we will all donate to this effort together :-)

good. I can mention that too.

> > project, and a test case implementation of CTS will be released.

> This year we plan to have SOAP interface only to the XDS client plugins,

what does this mean? I think you mean that the XDS client plug-ins will be 
available as plug-ins on a server using the OSGi/Servlet container? is that
the right language? 

> but after these will be done, CTS will be next. We are targeting an
> interoperability test case with at least one LAMP based open source EMR
> such as openEMR.

is this relevant to HIMSS?

Grahame