New release, v0.7, is available – see link below for downloadable archive. Throughput masurements were added. Manpages were updated.
I spend considerable time working with HL7. In the past I used SeeBeyond ICAN and Sun Java CAPS products, and OpenESB with HL7 Binding Component, to rapidly create MLLP senders and receivers for the HL7 solutions I was building and testing. I also tried, at various times, 7 Scan, Interface Explorer and more recently HL7 Browser. For the blog articles I am writing on HL7 I need simple tooling that allows me to send HL7 v2 delimited messages from a file to a MLLP listener and receive acknowledgements, receive HL7 messages from a sender and retrun acknowledgements, and recently to combine multiple sender message streams into a single stream, with correct acknowledgement handling. The tooling has to be free for me to distribute with the projects and the articles and to use in my day job as well.
Not finding anything that would fit the bill, and that would work reliably enough, I developed my own tools.
I embellished the basic sender a bit so I could send multiple messages, one after the other, from a file, delay between successive sends, generate MSH-10, replace MSH-3-1, MSH-4-1, MSH-5-1 and MSH-6-1, and increase timeout for acknowledgements.
The tools are all old fashioned command line tools – no graphical user interface.
CMDHL7Listener – man page: https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CMDHL7Listener.pdf
CMDHL7Sender – man page: https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CMDHL7Sender.pdf
CMDHL7Proxy – man page: https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CMDHL7Proxy.pdf
Deprecated Distribution: https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CMDHL7_v0.5.zip
Current Distribution: https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CMDHL7_v0.7.zip
Release 0.5 and 0.7 are free to use by anyone for any purpose and will stay that way. There may not be future releases 🙂
I used HAPI 1.0.1 libraries for HL7 processing – http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/
