Bots (edi)

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Bots is a open source EDI/b2b translator that strives to be complete EDI software. Bots is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Current version (dec 2 2007) is 1.2.0.

Contents 1 Features 2 Supported data formats 3 Supported communications 4 Dependencies 5 External links

[edit] Features

• Any-to-any-format conversions.
• Convert to readable (and printable) format ('EDI-fax').
• Conversion of codes, e.g. EAN/UCC-numbers. Maintenance of codes in user interface.
• Platform independent
• Web based user interface
• Receive (email) reports in case of errors.
• Plugins for easy configuration of EDI messages/scenario's
• Supports Unicode.
• Highly configurable; advanced configuration using scripting.
• Programming language: Python.

[edit] Supported data formats

• EDIFACT
• XML
• X12
• Fixed records/flat file/ASCII
• CSV
• SAP idocs
• EANCOM
• JSON, very good as an 'inhouse format'.

[edit] Supported communications

• SMTP (incl TLS, SSL)
• POP3 (incl TLS, SSL)
• ipmail
• InterCommit
• FTP
• File I/O

[edit] Dependencies

• Python
• SQLAlchemy
• PyProtocols
• TurboCheetah
• Cheetah
• TurboKid
• Kid
• CherryPy
• ConfigObj
• DecoratorTools
• elementtree
• RuleDispatch
• FormEncode
• PasteScript
• PasteDeploy
• Paste
• Turbogears
• PyProtocols
• Setuptools
• pysqlite
• mysql-Python
• psycopg2
• SQLite
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

[edit] External links

• Bots website
• Bots mailing list
• Bots project on SourceForge