http://www.cecid.hku.hk/pressrelease_20070601_H20Launch.php
Hong Kong SAR, Peoples Republic of China - 1 June 2007 - Center for
E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University of Hong
Kong (HKU) celebrates Hermes’ 5th birthday with the launch of a new
open source version of Hermes Messaging Gateway v2.0 (H2O). Thanks to
project funding from the HKSAR Government's Innovation & Technology
Commission, Hermes is available as free, open source to users and
developers of business-to-business integration and Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI).
First version released in June 2002, Hermes has since become a
popular
and awards-winning open source solution for organizations to exchange
information in ebXML Messaging (ebMS) or Applicability Specification 2
(AS2) formats with their business partners. Developers and users from
over 80 economies around the world have downloaded and adopted Hermes.
The software won the Best Infrastructure and Communication Application
of the Linux Business Award 2005 as well as Certificates of Merit of
the Asia-Pacific ICT Awards 2004 and HK Computer Society IT Excellence
Award 2004.
The latest version, H2O
(H-two-oh), replaces two predecessors (H2CE and H2EE) with additional
tools and a full set of documentation to make configuration and
administration even more easily. It includes an installation wizard,
web-based GUI admin tool, message status query capabilities, and
documentation of an installation guide, configuration guide, admin tool
user guide as well as the plug-in development guide.
H2O and its source code (http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/product/download/download_h2o/)
are released under http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlhttp://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. Users and developers can get
community support through the mailing list
cecid-hermes2@g.... Professional support is provided by
CECID’s VARs and can be requested through email enquiry@c....
Completed the AS2 Interoperability Testing AS-1Q05 with 29 other
participants (http://ebusinessready.org/as2.html)
organized by U.S. leading testing company, Drummond Group Inc., Hermes
2 enables real-time communication through HTTP or HTTPS to transmit
data over the Internet. Besides, it provides security for the transport
payload through Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME),
digital signatures and encryption, while reliability and
non-repudiation are achieved through the use of receipts.
The AS2 standard, commonly used in supply chains by large retailers,
manufacturers and suppliers, is often regarded as the “EDI over
Internet” standard. Hermes 2 facilitates large as well as small
enterprises to exchange EDI or other business-to-business data with
their partners and customers. It operates as a Java web application.
The ebXML Messaging Service (ebMS) and AS2 messaging capabilities are
facilitated by the corresponding plugins, which can be easily developed
by users through Hermes’ Simple Plugin Architecture specification. The
messaging operation requires a database (PostgreSQL or Oracle 9i or
above) with JDBC connectivity to keep track of the messaging status.
About CECID (http://www.cecid.hku.hk/index.php)
Established in January 2002, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure
Development (CECID) at the University of Hong Kong conducts e-commerce
research and development with the vision of helping organizations
increase their competitiveness in the global economy. CECID develops
e-commerce enabling technologies, participates in important
international e-commerce initiatives, as well as supports e-commerce
standardization for Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region. With
projects primarily funded by the Hong Kong Government's Innovation and
Technology Commission, CECID also takes on the mission to transfer
knowledge and technology to the community. Besides organizing forums
and seminars, the Center licenses its R&D results through the
University of Hong Kong to IT industry. Its acclaimed e-commerce
technology, Hermes, has penetrated over 80 economies and won the Best
Infrastructure and Communication Application of the Linux Business
Award 2005 as well as Certificates of Merit of the Asia-Pacific ICT
Awards 2004 and HK Computer Society IT Excellence Award 2004.
PR Contacts for Press and Analysts
Dorris Tai (cwtai@c...)
Business Manager
Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID)
Dept. of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2859 2818
Fax: +852 2547 4611
URL: http://www.cecid.hku.hk/index.php