Shahid’s Perspectives

I’ve been talking to customers for months about Mule, one of the first open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) implementations. I just ran across ServiceMix which is also an open source ESB built around JBI (JSR 208) principles, semantics and APIs. According to the ServiceMix website, “ServiceMix is lightweight and easily embeddable, has integrated Spring support and can be ran at the edge of the network (inside a client or server), as a standalone ESB provider or as a service within another ESB. You can use ServiceMix in Java SE or a Java EE application server.” Definitely worth checking out.

The Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework Project was proposed back in June and seems to be a great undertaking. Although it is going to do (assuming it succeeds) some of the same things that our open source Medigy Platform already does, perhaps there will be portions of the Eclipse project that we can use to replace or augment our Medigy Platform. If you’re looking for one or more frameworks for building EMR or other healthcare applications, it looks like you’ll have some choices in the next few years.

I spent some time in Canada this week talking to a health informatics client of mine and they pointed me to a nifty little open source HL7 parser called HAPI. I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but it looks to solve a number of parsing and encoding problems.

I have been using HTML and CSS for years and since most browsers are starting to support CSS fairly well I’ve been dropping HTML formatting in favor of CSS formatting. However, there are problems that creep up and I’ve found the following sites helpful in understanding them:

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