OpenESB Tutorial Simple HL7 Sender and Receiver
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Table of Contents Introduction... 2 Create HL7 Sender BPEL Project... 4 Create WSDLs for the HL7 Sender Project... 5 Create HL7 Sender Composite Application Project... 14 Deploy HL7 Sender Composite Application Project... 17 Create HL7 Receiver BPEL Project... 18 Create WSDLs for the HL7 Receiver Project... 19 Create HL7 Receiver Composite Application Project... 25 Deploy HL7 Receiver Composite Application Project... 27 Test HL7 Sender and Receiver Projects... 28 Conclusion... 30 Introduction This document describes how to create a simple HL7 Sender and Receiver project. I am assuming you have done some basic OpenESB projects. If you have not, you may want to try a HelloWorld example in OpenESB first to get familiar with OpenESB. The HL7 Sender project polls for files on a file system containing HL7 messages and sends them over MLLP to an HL7 external using the HL7 Outbound port and then writes the acknowledgement back to the file system. The HL7 Consumer (Receiver) project connects up the HL7 interface over MLLP (port 4040) and receives the HL7 messages, converts to XML and writes the data out to a file in XML format. To create or use these projects you need an OpenESB installation. There are other articles for installing OpenESB. I recommend installing OpenESB V2.3 from the community site: http://open-esb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113&itemid=583 Page 2
Once installed and running, please use the GlassFish admin console to install the HL7 Binding Component runtime jar from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/logicoy/openesb2.3/hl7bc-installer-2.3.0-snapshot.jar Choose directory where the HL7 BC jar is, click Open Next Finish If you would like to import and use the projects instead of creating them from scratch, please download the zip file from the link below and unzip to your netbeans project folder: https://s3.amazonaws.com/logicoy/openesb2.3/examples/hl7projects.zip Page 3
Create HL7 Sender BPEL Project First, we create the HL7 Sender BPEL project! Run the OpenESB Netbeans IDE. Select Projects tab and New Project SOA BPEL Module- Enter project name HL7MsgSender and click Finish Page 4
Create WSDLs for the HL7 Sender Project For this HL7 Sender project we need a File and a HL7 WSDL. HL7MsgSender_FileReceive WSDL: Input1 Page 5
Output1 For the File Inbound, file-address, you can specify a File Binding Component Application Variable instead of hard coding the directory path. This is a good practice and allows for defining the value to be determined based on your environment settings on the GlassFish admin server. The variable name is: ${hl7msgpolldir}. Page 6
Please set an appropriate value for it on the GlassFish admin console. Page 7
HL7MsgSender_HL7Send WSDL: This is the outbound HL7BC WSDL and you need to set appropriate host/port values, for hl7:address Page 8
and hl7:protocolproperties Page 9
Now you can edit your HL7MsgSender BPEL process and drag and drop the FileReceive WSDL to the left side of the BPEL editor and HL7Sender WSDL to the right. You can then add partner links! Page 10
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Assign1 activity HL7Invoke Page 12
Assign2 HL7AckReply Page 13
Create HL7 Sender Composite Application Project Click File New Project SOA Composite Application Page 14
Project name: HL7MsgSenderCA Click Finish. Page 15
Add the BPEL module HL7MsgSender and click Build Project. Page 16
Deploy HL7 Sender Composite Application Project Click on Deploy Project button Page 17
Create HL7 Receiver BPEL Project File New Project SOA BPEL Module- Enter project name HL7MsgConsumer and click Finish Page 18
Create WSDLs for the HL7 Receiver Project For this HL7 Receiver project we need a File and a HL7 WSDL. HL7MsgConsumer_FileSend WSDL: FileOutboundBinding - Input1 Output filename: HL7Msg.xml For the File Outbound, file-address, you can specify a File Binding Component Application Variable instead of hard coding the directory path. This is a good practice and allows for defining the value to be determined based on your environment settings on the GlassFish admin server. The variable name is: ${hl7msgoutdir}. Page 19
Please set an appropriate value for it on the GlassFish admin console. HL7MsgConsumer_HL7Receiver WSDL: This is the inbound HL7BC WSDL and you need to set appropriate host/port values, for hl7:address Page 20
and hl7:protocolproperties Now you can edit your HL7MsgConsumer BPEL process and drag and drop the HL7MsgReceive WSDL to the left side of the BPEL editor and FileSend WSDL to the right. You can then add partner links! Page 21
Assign1 activity Page 22
FIleSend- Write operation Page 23
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Create HL7 Receiver Composite Application Project Click File New Project SOA Composite Application Page 25
Project name: L7MsgConsumerCA Click Finish. Add the BPEL module HL7MsgConsumer and click Build Project. Page 26
Deploy HL7 Receiver Composite Application Project Click on Deploy Project button Page 27
Test HL7 Sender and Receiver Projects Create a file with name HL7Msg.hl7 and place it in the inbound file directory indicated by your FIleBC application variable ${hl7msgpolldir}, which in this case is \tmp\data and put some HL7 data in it. For example: MSH ^~\& SMS IAH CERNER PATHNT 200201291848 ADT^A03 agre P 2.3 AL NE EVN A01 200201291848 ABCKB1 PID 53820452 00664524 220675537 SMITH^JOHN^^^^ 19781218 M E 1 234 MAIN RD #B1^^LOS ANGELES^CA^90024 (310)555-5555 0012320412 220675537 PV1 I 2324^2302^-B 04100^SMITH EDWARD M MED 04100^SMITH EDWARD M S S P IAH 200201291848 PV2 ^SEIZURE, FEVER, RLQ PAIN Observe, that the file is picked up by the HL7 Sender project, and sent to the HL7 Receiver project via MLLP protocol and that an acknowledgement is received and written back to the file system with filename HL7Ack.txt with the following content: MSH ^~\& CERNER PATHNT SMS IAH 200201291848 ACK agre P 2.3 MSA AA agre Also, observe that the HL7 Consumer (Receiver) project receives the HL7 message from the HL7 Sender project over MLLP (port 4040) and converts it to XML and writes the data out to the HL7Msg.xml file in the directory pointed to by by your FIleBC application variable ${hl7msgoutdir}. Page 28
The contents look should like this: Page 29
Conclusion I hope this tutorial is helpful in your usage of OpenESB for HL7 integration projects. Please note that you can substitute your own HL7 Sender or Receiver external system using any other HL7 compliant tool to communicate and exchange data with the appropriate OpenESB HL7 project counterpart. You can access additional tutorials on the LogiCoy blog page: http://logicoy.com/logicoyblog/ Also, the OpenESB Community Website contains additional tutorials: http://www.open-esb.net/ Also, Michael Czapski has healthcare related tutorials: http://blogs.czapski.id.au/wpcontent/uploads/2013/03/openesbisaliveandwellandlivingin..._v0.1.0.pdf http://blogs.czapski.id.au/category/openesb-v2-3-articles Please send your comments/feedback about this article to: info@logicoy.com Page 30