[news.eclipse.technology.ohf] questions on existing XDS.b

[Sarah Knoop <seknoop@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert,

I've changed the subject of your email - as Matt's questions are about 
new development and yours are about what already exists.

It is true that OHF already supports XDS.b (synchronous). But, OHF is an 
enabling client side technology. It will help you submit and query 
documents by constructing the standards-based, complex, messages for you 
to send to a server. OHF does not implement the server side (it does not 
implement an XDS Registry or an XDS Repository). A picture may help:

+-----------+    OHF API or WS  +---------+ IHE protocol  +-----------+
|  your     |	   ----->       |  OHF    |  -------->    | IHE server|
|application|			+---------+		  +-----------+
+-----------+

So to complet a query or submit document scenario, you'll need to use 
one of our known internet servers to connect with and configure OHF to 
point to this server. Then you can call OHF, using the simplified API 
and it will do the rest of the work.

See:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/IHE_Test_Server_Information

As Matt previously posted, the IBM servers are in the process of 
(physically) relocating. We'll let the community know when this process 
is complete.

A good place to start is with the JUNIT tests for each plugin - these 
can be used, along with a server infrastructure, to experiment with the 
capabilities of OHF.

Hope this clarifies,
- Sarah




RobertHua wrote:
>  The OHF that we are usring supports the XDS.b? I now installed the 
> XDS.b web service on my machine.I want to use the OHF to connect to the 
> XDS.b serivce. Do this implement?
>
>   If I want to submit some documents to the service,I need to write the 
> code?
> I used my onwer services URL,but always failed.
>   I studied OHF,but I did not known how to start with.
>   I use the test in ohf,the program always had some errors.
> Can someone help me?