I am almost ready...

Voilà, I have finished my first Wiki page Install, which gives a exhaustive step-by-step procedure for installing and configuring BabelAS2. This procedure is now also within the _Readme.txt file. It looks like everything is ready for the shipment of BabelAS2 version 0.03.

BabelAS2 version 0.03 will be the first "complete" version, it will include everything you need to send and receive any messages to/from any partners. No limitations, no license costs ;-)

The Wiki of Google Code is Great!

Finally, it might be quicker that expected... I really enjoy using the Wiki of Google Code as authoring tool for my _Readme.txt file. I really hope I will have finished tonight ;-)

I am still working on the "Readme.txt"

It's quite frustrating to realise that it's the _Readme.txt file that is the most time consuming to write! The Receive.asp is ready and running well on the BabelAS2 Test Server, but I have still not shipped it within BabelAS2 version 0.03 since I have not finished to detail all the steps needed to configure IIS. At the end, I am sure that I will have to describe 100+ steps :-(

AS2Box.net is looking for BETA testers...

I have been too optimistic, and now, I am depressed... Not a single hit on the sign up page :-/

The idea of AS2Box.net is to provide a WebDAV folder, simply accessible from the Windows Explorer, from which you can send and receive file with the AS2 transport protocol. You just need to:

1. Sign up at AS2Box.net by providing: (*)
   1. Your AS2 identifier, which you can freely choose
   2. The URL of your partner
   3. The AS2 identifier of your partner
   4. The certificate of your partner, containing his public key

(*) Before entering connection information form your trading partner, have a try with a test AS2 server, see http://www.as2box.net/help.html.

2. Then, you will receive an e-mail, which you can directly forward to your partner, containing:
   1. Your AS2 identifier (the one you have chosen)
   2. Your URL
   3. Your certificate, containing your public key
3. You will then be able to send files by simply copying them into the folder "http://as2box.net/<Your Account>/Outgoing", the file will be sent to your partner, renamed and moved to "http://as2box.net/<Your Account>/Outgoing/Archive", and the MDNs received will be there as well.
4. You receive files from your trading partner directly into "http://as2box.net/<Your Account>/Incoming", and the MDNs sent will be there as well.

Sign up at http://www.as2box.net/.

Many thanks in advance for your help ;-)

Babelabout has launched AS2Box.net

Babelabout has launched today the BETA version of AS2Box.net, a simple on-line solution for transfering files with AS2. Now, AS2 is simple ;-)

AS2 Restart "mechanism" implemented in a simple prototype!

As mentioned in my previous post below, the AS2 Restart should not be too complex since the specification http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-harding-as2-restart-00.txt is only 7 pages long ;-)

Indeed, the checkpoint/restart mechanism is not too difficult to implement. I have create a little VBScript prototype within my BabelAS2 open source project, you can find it at http://code.google.com/p/babelas2/source/detail?r=13.
Do not hesitate to send any questions/feedback/comments to babelabout@gmail.com.

For now, I still need to package my Receive.asp script within BabelAS2 version 0.03. I have to explain how to configure IIS :-/ But then, within BabelAS2 version 0.04, I should be able to deliver the probably first implementation of AS2 Restart as sepicifed within http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-harding-as2-restart-00.txt!

AS2 Restart, let's do it ;-)

When I read, on the 2009-11-12, the press release from the Drummond Group about AS2 restart, I did not pay much attention. AS2 Restart is a new draft specification started by a group of vendors (Axway, SEEBURGER, Inovis and Cleo Communications that addresses the needs to successfully exchange AS2 messages with very large payloads.

But, after having read the new post New AS2 Restart and the Fall of the Berlin Wall from Steve Keifer, I think I should have a closer look to it ;-)

The current draft specification for AS2 Restart (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-harding-as2-restart-00.txt),which has been submitted to the IETF EDIINT (AS2) working group, is quite short, 7 pages, let's read it carefully...