About:
BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft BizTalk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
New features include a dynamic Web service action that will make service calls using WSDL, 6 new actions for working with relational databases, and a JDBC driver manager. Improvements to the map builder include support for xCBL and other large document type archives, support for including external schemas in archives, and an auto incrementer macro.

Author:
Greg Fast [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.46/10.00 (4 votes)

Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bie-gpl/
Changelog:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=79291

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		MacOS X, Web Environment, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		Developers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		Java
[Topic]		Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks, Internet, Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers, Other/Nonlisted Topic, System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks, Text Processing, Text Processing :: Markup :: XML, Text Processing :: Markup :: XSL/XSLT

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	6.0.3	13-Aug-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
6.0.3	Major bugfixes	13-Aug-2004 04:01
6.0.0	Major feature enhancements	13-Apr-2004 21:06
5.7.1 (beta)	Major feature enhancements	27-Jan-2004 16:50
5.6.4	Minor bugfixes	13-Nov-2003 16:30
5.6.3	Minor bugfixes	31-Oct-2003 16:27
5.6.2 (beta)	Minor bugfixes	22-Oct-2003 15:22
5.6.1	Major bugfixes	03-Oct-2003 21:32
5.6.0	Major feature enhancements	30-Sep-2003 16:21
5.5.1	Minor bugfixes	04-Sep-2003 13:10
5.5.0	Major feature enhancements	21-Aug-2003 14:38

 Comments

[»] BIE Maillist & Information
by Rev. Adam Tauno Williams - Jan 5th 2006 08:02:44

If you want to discuss BIE please use the bie-developer mailling list on SourceForge; even though it has the word "developer" in the name it is OK to subscribe and post general or usage questions about BIE. The forums provided for BIE on the WDI website are pretty much useless, not to mention really cumbersome. So use the mailling list. WDI doesn't have much to do with the BIE project anymore.

Since documentation on using BIE is a bit lacking I've constructed some bits of my own as well as some links relating to BIE at - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/node/56

We use this product in production and once you get around the learning curve it really does provide a solid platform for performing "business integration".

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[»] BIE Gets The Job Done
by TGC - Jul 23rd 2003 16:01:25

I've been using BIE in production now for about three weeks. Previously I had used BizTalk to do the same jobs...basically dealing with inventory and purchasing requests between my warehouse, distributors, printers and publishers. It seems to be just as speedy as BizTalk ever was, and uses up less resources on the server. I was running BizTalk on Windows 2000. Now I'm running BIE on the same box and barely notice a load.

The map builder, though similar is much easier to use than the one from BizTalk. About the only thing I miss is that BizTalk had a better transaction viewer. But when you compare the price of BIE (free) to BizTalk ($55,000). I'm glad I found BIE. I was nearing the end of my BizTalk trial period and BIE saved me a ton of Cash, even after I purchased support for BIE (for $5000).

To anyone looking at BizTalk like I was, I whole heartedly recommend giving BIE a look.

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