Re: [ubl-dev] Free UBL formatter now available

[David RR Webber <david@drrw.info>]

Jon,

This is good news.  Your notes here reminded me that the XSLT style 
sheets from
Crane will also work with the OASIS jCAM processor to post process, after
performing the CAM template content valdiation rules - to render the 
content.

The jCAM engine allows you to reference the XSLT formatting of your choice.
You can also specify an XSLT to render error messages back to the sender.
The jCAM engine is open source and uses the Saxon XSLT processor.

In addition jCAM is now integrated with the Hermes ebXML messaging server,
so you can integrate jCAM services directly into ebMS and UBL message 
exchanges.
The Hermes server directly passes the XML DOM pointers from the payload into
the jCAM engine in memory - so this is optimized for throughput and message
processing.

More informaton on all this is available from  http://www.jcam.org.uk

Enjoy, DW
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jon.bosak@sun.com wrote:

>Hello UBL users and developers,
>
>You'll remember last month's announcement of free XSL-FO UBL
>stylesheets from Crane Softwrights:
>
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200410/msg00004.html
>
>The availability of the Crane stylesheets means that any UBL
>instance document (purchase order, invoice, etc.) can be rendered
>by an XSL-FO formatter as a PDF or HTML file conforming to the UN
>Layout Key, which has served for over 40 years as the
>international standard for printed trade documents.
>
>In a stunning followup to the Crane release, Ambrosoft has
>announced this week the availability of a free Java formatter that
>implements the Crane UBL stylesheets as a single executable jar
>file.  The Ambrosoft UBL transformer runs on any Java platform
>(including Personal Java, available on some PDAs) and will
>transform any UBL 1.0 document instance into either an FO file for
>further processing by an FO-aware application or directly into
>HTML that can be displayed or printed out using an ordinary web
>browser.
>
>The UBL transformer can be downloaded from the Ambrosoft site at
>
>   http://www.ambrosoft.com/
>
>According to the documentation included in the release, the UBL
>transformer "is an illustration of how standard XSLT stylesheets
>are converted into a fast and small Java executable JAR file,
>suitable for high-speed or small-footprint applications from
>servers to hand-held devices.  This JAR file was created with
>Ambrosoft's Gregor/XSLT technology, implementing high performance
>XSLT processing with an optimizing compiler and a fine-tuned
>runtime system.  A descendant of XSLTC, Gregor/XSLT reflects a few
>more years of innovation and experimentation in speeding up XSLT
>processing and today is the fastest XSLT solution for Java."
>
>Thanks to Crane and Ambrosoft, UBL can now claim to have fulfilled
>its promise to provide a standard machine-processable business
>data format from which at any moment you can automatically
>generate an internationally standardized paper or online
>representation usable in traditional paper and fax-based
>workflows.  G. Ken Holman of Crane and Jacek Ambroziak of
>Ambrosoft deserve the congratulations and appreciation of the
>entire world business community for their critical contribution to
>making the vision of low-cost electronic commerce a reality.
>
>Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
>Chair, OASIS UBL Technical Committee
>
>  
>