OpenVPMS ESCI (e-Supply Chain Interface) is a standards-based API to enable OpenVPMS to place orders and receive order responses and invoices to and from suppliers electronically. 

It is based on the exchange of Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 documents via web services.

The first beta release of ESCI is now available for download at:

http://repository.openvpms.org/releases/org/openvpms/openvpms-esci-packa...

This contains:

• integration documentation
• Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Definitions (XSD) files, defining the web services
• JAX-WS interfaces, defining the web services in Java
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) wrappers for the UBL documents
• Example implementations of the ESCI web services
• Example clients, to submit UBL documents to the ESCI web services
• Example Order, OrderResponseSimple and Invoice UBL documents
• Java classes to submit UBL documents to ESCI web services

Please post any comments or queries to this forum.

-Tim