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Holodeck B2B 5.0 – new UI’s and Certificate manager

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Holodeck B2B 5.0 is out and these are the changes we’d like to highlight.

User interfaces

Although Holodeck B2B is back end software, we thought that system admins would appreciate a quick and easy way to monitor the gateway without referring to the business system logs. That’s why we’ve added two user interfaces to Holodeck B2B.
With these UI’s, gateway admins can monitor message status and check gateway configuration.

Command line UI: Overviews of P-Modes, Certificates, Message status and Message history are included. Run the tool without entering a parameter for a list of all available functions.
Graphic UI: lets you quickly see how your gateway is configured in a graphical interface.
You’ll find an overview of the UI functions available in the documentation.

We’d love to hear what you think of the new UI and if there is anything else you’d like to be able to monitor. Let us know through our contact form or our social media!

2-way Asynchronous messaging

You can now specify a 2-way Async message exchange in 1 single P-Mode for simpler gateway configuration. This increases the ways in which you can manage P-Modes.

Certificate Manager

We are continuously making Holodeck B2B more modular and flexible. This release, we’ve added a new separate Certificate Manager to Holodeck B2B. It manages trust validation of signing and encryption certificates, as well as more security configuration options.
The default security manager supports OCSP validation. This is used in for example the Peppol network. You can now check the Peppol CA online to validate whether a certificate is still valid or has been revoked.
In addition, the Certificate manager lets you implement your own certificate policies.

REST API

You can add a REST interface to your gateway for connecting with your back end system using our new REST extension.

And there’s more…

For a full overview of all changes, please consult the Changelog in the download.

Holodeck B2B 2.1 now available

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Today we’ve released a large update for our popular open source AS4 messaging software, Holodeck B2B 2.1. We’ve added some important new functionality, fixed several bugs and made some general code improvements.

New features

The most important new features of Holodeck B2B 2.1 are:

    • Multi-hop messaging, where a message passes through multiple intermediaries to reach it’s destination but still maintains end-to-end security
    • Messages without attachments sent as single part messages and not SOAP with attachments
    • Trust store to hold the certificates of trusted Certificate Authorities
    • Event framework to enable additional notification to external components
    • Automatic message purging cleans up all meta data (including payload data for User Messages) after a configurable number of days
    • Flexible configuration of pulling, giving the option to build your own policies
    • All received ebMS error signals are logged, even if they can’t be processed or are not for Holodeck B2B

e-SENS and EESSI compliant

Holodeck B2B 2.1 is again fully AS4, ENTSOG and e-SENS compliant, having passed the eSENS compliancy test. And with the introduction of Multi-hop messaging, it now also EESSI compliant. It has been interoperability tested with various other AS4 open source and commercial products including .Net implementations.

Download

Get the latest version now from the Download page.

Support and consultancy

If you are looking for support for your Holodeck B2B AS4 gateway, or would like advice on how our MSH can be used with your current business software, feel free to contact us at info@Chasquis-consulting.com

Holodeck B2B 2.0 released

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Big news – we’re out of beta!

The completely rewritten Holodeck B2B 2.0 has full support for all AS4 features, including

  • One-Way/Push and One-Way/Pull message exchange patterns
  • AS4 Compression feature
  • Message delivery configuration in P-Mode with support for specific delivery options for receipt and errors
  • Option to include refToMessageId in a user message to enable easy reference of related messages
  • Generic P-Modes. Only define the parameters common to a set of messages in the P-Mode and supply the remaining details when the message is sent
  • Message authorization
  • Non-repudiation of receipt
  • Multiple submitters
  • Multiple receivers
  • Signing and encrypting the message using WS-Security
  • Large messages

and also offers improved logging and lots of documentation, both in the code and online.
Holodeck is fast, light weight, stand-alone and as it is Java based it runs on most platforms.

Interfaces for easy extensibility

To improve extensiblity, Holodeck B2B has been split into 2 parts: Core and Interfaces, both with their own license. Core code is GPLv3 but the Interfaces are LGPLv3, making it possible to connect Holodeck to your own system, even if that is not open-source software.

Versatile and fully AS4 and e-SENS compliant

Holodeck B2B 2.0 is not only fully AS4 compliant, it has also passed the e-SENS conformance and interoperability tests. It can be used as the e-Delivery building block in e-SENS, in CEF projects and any project using the ENTSOG / e-SENS AS4 profile. As Holodeck B2B has full support for AS4 it can also be used for STP and Superstream gateways.

Download a copy now

Download the latest version, or take a look at the sources in the repository.

Meet us at CeBIT!

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CeBIT 2016 Banner

CeBIT, the largest and most internationally represented IT fair in the world, will take place between 14th and 18th March 2016 in Hannover (Germany).

The European project e-SENS together with CEF and e-CODEX have a booth showing Digital Public Services Across Borders.
Among the topics presented will be
– IT solutions addressing the problems of compliance with EU legislation
– Interoperability achieved in various policy domains

Furthermore, e-SENS will demonstrate the interoperability of the e-Delivery solutions of different vendors that comply to the ebMS3/AS4 profile.
Holodeck B2B is one of the solutions presented. Having passed the e-SENS interoperability and conformance tests, Holodeck B2B is ready for use in all e-Delivery projects.

Part of the Holodeck B2B team will be at Cebit on friday march 18th. Hall 7, stand 39. Come and say hello!