TCP/IP HL7 Adapter Components

The TCP/IP HL7 Adapter incorporates three components:

• The HL7 TCP/IP Resource Adapter that implements the lower layer HL7 protocol over TCP/IP.

• Default inbound and outbound Collaborations that implement the HL7 messaging protocol, sequence numbering and recourse actions.

• Generic HL7 OTDs that provide the structures necessary to parse and create the data messages and ACKs used by the protocol.

The TCP/IP HL7 Object Type Definition (OTD) enables the creation of HL7 interfaces capable of running over TCP/IP, and also utilizes the common Adapter services available in Sun Java CAPS ESB. The TCP/IP HL7 Adapter works hand in hand with the Sun Java CAPS HL7 OTD Libraries, versions 2.1 through 2.5.

The TCP/IP HL7 Adapter properties allow the user to easily configure the operation of the TCP/IP HL7 Adapter. These properties are adopted into the OTD’s functions.

The OTD handles all of the lower-layer protocol. The OTD’s behavior is customized using the Adapter configuration properties. These Adapter properties are used by the resource adapter, but are also accessed and used by the prebuilt Collaborations.