HAPI Announcement: Version 1.1 Beta Released

Readers of this blog know by now that I have used HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface), an object-oriented HL7 2.x parser for Java, with such a high level of success that I am compelled to pass on significant announcements. The release of HAPI 1.1 Beta was announced via email last night:

Hi Everyone,

This is a quick note to let everyone know that HAPI 1.1-beta1 has been posted to the Sourceforge download site.

Thank you to everyone that has contributed code or filed bugs for this release. I had been hoping to get is out a month ago, but competing priorities, and the unexpected CVS outage at sf.net set us back a bit. This release features a number of bug fixes, particularly to the XML parser/encoder, as well as a new Maven plugin that can be used to generate structure classes from XML conformance profiles. The documentation is just getting started on this, but it is very powerful- we at UHN are using it pretty much constantly in ESB and message translation applications these days.

More info is available at the what's new and changelog pages.

Assuming nothing major comes up, I am hoping we will be able to release HAPI 1.1 within the next few weeks.

Cheers,
James Agnew

Ps, to anyone reading this who is based in Toronto, I might as well take a minute to plug our other open-source project, a realtime transit tracker. I think it's pretty cool. 🙂