I have a client that needs to interface with a vendor that uses EDI 
documents.  for instance they use the EDI 850 purchase order document.  Is 
there a good way to interface Web Services with EDI documents?

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Regards,
Gary Blakely

Hi Gary,

Based on my understanding, XML webservice standard hasn't definite design 
on EDI document, and for Microsoft products, the BizTalk server is designed 
to handle EDI, EAI scenarios.  

If you want to try it through webservice, you can first check the EDI 
document's format and how will you need to communicate with the vendor 
through such EDI document. Basically, webservice only send out or recieve 
in XML based SOAP messages and map them to the .net runtime object methods 
to execute some code logic.  Do you think this will help for your case?

Please feel free to let me know if you have any more specific questions or 
concerns here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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"GaryDean" <GaryDean@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message 
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>I have a client that needs to interface with a vendor that uses EDI 
>documents.  for instance they use the EDI 850 purchase order document.  Is 
>there a good way to interface Web Services with EDI documents?


In general, the issues with web services and EDI are the same as any other 
kind of application and EDI. The real question is how to handle EDI from a 
..NET Application.

In a previous job, I used the Symphonia product from Orion Health 
(http://support.symphonia3.com/EDI.aspx). We used their interactive tools to 
create the files describing the format of the documents we needed to 
exchange, then used their API to format the data.
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John Saunders [MVP]