NEPAL Developer
NEPAL Developer is a powerful tool used for protocol engineering, the process of validating and creating new or
enhancing existing XML protocols to standardize and simplify information exchange. When the requirements for a
project are outside the scope of existing protocols, NEPAL Developer is the solution.
The protocol engineering functionality of NEPAL Developer was used in the development of the industry-leading
products, Innovision Financial Server and Innovision Health Server. Now, all developers have access to the
advanced protocol engineering tools used to create enterprise software systems that use protocols for
integration. As a tool that simplifies and facilitates the implementation of protocols, NEPAL Developer moves
Innovision closer to its vision of "Protocols Everywhere".
Protocol Engineering
NEPAL Developer provides protocol engineering functionality to create a programmatic representation of a
protocol that insulates a system developer from specific protocol details. This enables the developer to focus
more on system-specific issues and less on protocol issues. Below are key focal points of Protocol Engineering
within NEPAL Developer:
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Developer Workbench: Developer Workbench (i.e. Graphical User Interface) provides access to the
Protocol Engineering process that integrates conventional workflows such as requirements, analysis and design
into a single, streamlined process.
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Protocol Instruction: A Protocol Instruction represents an autonomous statement, command or question
posed from one protocol-speaking endpoint to another in order to quantify and define the role of a protocol
with respect to its interactions.
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Protocol Models: Protocol Models describe the relationships between protocol instructions and other
shared resources including message sets, data types, parameter definitions, object definitions and status
codes allowing for more comprehensive analysis and decomposition of a protocol.
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Protocol Components: Protocol Components describe each aspect of a protocol (Service, Environment,
Procedure Rules, Encoding and Vocabulary) which when combined become a complete protocol system (i.e. a
Pluggable Protocol Runtime).
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Pluggable Protocol Runtimes: The end result is creation of one or more pluggable protocol runtimes as
an outcome of the Protocol Engineering process. Pluggable protocols are complete protocol systems usable
within the NEPAL Runtime system or other Java based frameworks.
For More Information
For more information, please contact Innovision.
