[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ncip v2 services

[Jason Stephenson]

Jonathon,

Welcome to Evergreen!

You say that you "have had some luck proving the very basic concept of  
using opensrf to provide responses to ncip requests." I'd like to know  
more about what you have done so far. Knowing where you are at would  
help us to answer your questions.

> Does anyone on this list know how to map some basic
> ncip services to opensrf services?

No. You're breaking new ground here. However, I am sure that some of  
us have some ideas. There currently is no NCIP support in Evergreen,  
so there are no OpenSRF NCIP services. You'd need to create these, or  
use existing Open-ILS services to get the different bits of  
information that you need.

A suggestion that I would make is that you do take into account that  
there are two versions of the NCIP "standard" out there, and that  
version 1 is more widely implemented than version 2. Also, different  
vendors implement different versions of the standard. (The standard  
refers to these as profiles.) It would be nice if your work could  
accommodate the implementation of different profiles, so that others  
can build on your work.

Also, since you are working with XC NCIP Toolkit, you might want to  
look into modernizing the Java interfaces to OpenSRF. They could use a  
little attention as they lag behind the other language implementations  
in features. This is something that I have intended to look into  
doing, but I've been busy with more pressing things lately.

>  Is there any reference that I can
> obtain (I have already been reviewing the xmpp book from ora) ? or is
> there any information on how best to satisfy ncip (v2) requests?

The best reference that I have seen for working with OpenSRF is

http://open-ils.org/~denials/workshop.html

There is no documentation for satisfying NCIP requests with OpenSRF  
because, as I say above, no one has actually done that, yet.


>
> thank you (all) in advance for any help you can provide - jonathon.scott
>

Thank you for joining the community and doing this work. Hopefully, we  
can have a productive discussion that leads to something useful for  
all Evergreen users. I understand that a group in Michigan also wants  
to have some NCIP code written for Evergreen. It may be useful for you  
to collaborate with whoever ends up developing that code as well.

Cheers,
Jason Stephenson
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium