New XML testing tools available for partner exchange verification andint

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What are the best tools for testing your XML e-Business information exchanges with your partners?  The new release of CAM v2.1 and the included CAMV 2.0 XML validation engine may well hold the current crown.

Here is the feature set that the CAMV engine now provides:

o Code lists and SQL table lookups with conditional rules

o Cross-field validation rules

o Dynamic XML structure components inclusion/exclusion

o Error and warning level reporting

o XPath V2.0 rules for extended business logic

o Extensible rule templates with schema-aware validations

o Clear business documentation for policy analyst verification

o Open source with open platform deployment

o Public open standards based from W3C and OASIS

o High performance thread safe execution engine

o Dynamic template driven deployment framework

o Spring API compatible for middleware integration

o Ant scripting for test suite implementations

o Flexible result rendering, routing and reporting

Put all together this now allows developers to create comprehensive test suite packages, including business rules and SQL table lookups. This enables partners to verify their XML exchanges in unprecedented details. It also establishes test suites for regression testing purposes. 

Since all the templates and XML needed can be configured using open source tools - this means that industry communities can now create these resources to support their actual business exchange XML implementations - and share them easily with their implementation partners. 

Also everything needed runs cross-platform on Windows, MacOs and Linux and is open source based. 

Test suite configuration has been made very simple - you merely put all the XML instances in one folder together - setup a test script for pointing to that and your compiled validation template - and run it. 

The complete configuration details are explained in a handy quick guide PDF that you will find linked to here - http://www.cameditor.org/#CAMV_Testing 

And as usual the main downloads are accessible from http://www.cameditor.org 

Last but not least - because the CAMV engine is now Spring API enabled - so you can deploy the same rules and XML instance testing into your production middleware should you need. 

There are sample test suites on the download site with and without SQL database lookup validation of code values.

Enjoy, DW