Hermes
Messaging Gateway v2.0 Enterprise Edition Available
Hong
Kong SAR, Peoples
Republic of China
– March 23, 2006 - Center for
E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University of Hong
Kong
(HKU) and iASPEC Technologies announce the release of Hermes Messaging
Gateway
v2.0 Enterprise Edition (Hermes 2 EE). With the GPL community edition
released
last December, this non-GPL enterprise edition comes with additional
features including
an installation wizard, message status query capabilities, and a
Web-based
administrative tool for easy configuration and management of the
messaging
gateway. Full documentation - an installation guide, configuration
guide, admin
tool user guide, plug-in development guide and technical reference of
Hermes 2
– is bundled with the Enterprise Edition, along with iASPEC’s Silver
Support
Service. The whole package helps users to get Hermes up and running
more
quickly and to develop applications efficiently. It also frees OEMs and
service
providers from GPL's requirement of distributing their proprietary
source code.
Hermes 2 EE can be obtained through iASPEC Technologies (http://www.iaspec.com/Hermes2.htm).
Completed
Drummond Group’s AS2 Interoperability
Testing AS-1Q05 (http://ebusinessready.org/as2.html),
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. It operates as a Java web application. The ebXML Messaging
Service
(ebMS) and AS2 messaging capabilities are facilitated by the
corresponding plug-ins,
which can be easily developed by users through Hermes’ Simple Plug-in
Architecture specification. The messaging operation uses a database
with JDBC
connectivity to keep track of the messaging status.
About
CECID (www.cecid.hku.hk)
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.
About iASPEC (www.iaspec.com)
iASPEC is an IT
consulting and
software services firm
headquartered in Hong Kong. Since its
founding
in 1988, the Company has built a solid reputation with proven track
records in
serving its local and international customers. The Company has
subsidiaries and
associated firms in Mainland China
and the United
States of America. Leveraging on the
combined strength
of its multi-location operations, iASPEC provides innovative software
products,
high-quality IT consulting and professional services to its clients in
these
expanded regions.
PR Contacts for Press and Analysts:
Dorris Tai (cwtai@cecid.hku.hk)
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