NIST IHE Document Sharing/Public Registry Test Facility

This is the new hardware so the new port numbers must be used

Introduction

This server is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in support of Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) and related profiles published by Integrating the Healthcare Environment (IHE). This family of profile is now refered to as Document Sharing.

This test facility is based on the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework.

All testing done against this facility is considered conformance testing: testing against a reference. The primary goal of IHE is interoperability testing where implementations are tested against other implementations. Conformance testing always preceeds interoperability testing. Interoperability testing in IHE takes place at IHE Connectathons.

Open source

The sources for this test facility are available as open source on Source Forge as project IheOs. They can be downloaded for inspection or for local installation. Although the sources are available, we only support the binary releases. See the News section for details of recent releases.

Scope

This test facility covers the testing of the following IHE Profiles and Supplements:

XDS.b
XDR (full metadata and limited metadata)
XDM
XCA
MPQ
ATNA (TLS)
Metadata Update
XCPD

Tools Overview

Public Registry Server is a service run on the Internet that is a testing reference for the XDS.b profile, parts of the XCA profile, and part of the ATNA profile. This server offers a reference for testing clients, actors that initiate network connections with a partner.

XDS Toolkit is a downloadable tool that contains a large number of tools within it. It is intended to operate in a developer's lab so that concerns about firewalls and Internet access do not interupt testing. It is packaged as a Web ARchive (WAR) file and can be run on any Servlet container (Tomcat, Jetty, etc.).

These tools are freely available and downloadable from this site. See the News section below for links to specific versions.

Discussion of these tools is done on the XDS Implementers mailing list. Membership can be requested via here.

Projects using this facility

News

March 5, 2012 - The public Registry has been moved to new hardware

The changes to the following port numbers are permanent:

Non-TLS requests change from 9080 to 12080
TLS requests for the North American Connectathon certificates changes from 9085 to 12081
TLS requests for the European Connectathon certificates changes from 9443 to 12082

These changes are reflected in the wiki here

Feb 27, 2012 - European 2012 Connecathon certificate installed

The certificate for European Connectathon has been installed on the Public Registry on port 9443. For the toolkit, a new Environment has been issued with the same certificate. See the Downloads section for details.

Jan 30, 2012 - XDS Toolkit moved

The XDS Toolkit has moved to its new home

http://hit-testing.nist.gov:12080/xdstools2

This new box will become the new home of all my services. It will get the alias ihexds.nist.gov once the move is complete and before the old box is decommisioned. I will announce the move once everything is in place.

Jan 25, 2012 - XDS Toolkit version 144 released

This release is the version that was used at the NA2012 Connectathon a few weeks ago. It includes a few new Pre-Connectathon tests focused on XDS Document Registry support for Extra Metadata and some bug fixes for environment management. These tests are not yet registered in Gazelle. Download from here (WAR file).

Jan 24, 2012 - VMWare distribution of Public Registry released

This VMWare appliance contains the latest version of the toolkit and the Public Registry server. It can be downloaded and run locally. It is a copy of the red/green/blue servers I run at Connectathon. Download size is 2.04 GB. Installation directions are here and the VM download is available from here (zip).

Oct 5-6, 2011 - Workshop on XDS Toolkit internals

We held a two day workshop discussing the software internals of the XDS Toolkit. We had 17 attendees from the US and Europe. The slides used are available from here (zip).

Downloads

Feb 27, 2012 - Certificate for European 2012 Connectathon

This contains the certs and Affinity Domain configuration (codes.xml) to be used with the toolkit in preparation for the EURO2012 Connectathon. Download from here (zip) and instructions are here.

Jan 25, 2012 - XDS Toolkit version 144 Download from here (WAR file).

Jan 24, 2012 - VMWare distribution

Download size is 2.04 GB. Installation directions are here and the VM download is available from here (zip).

Dec 5, 2011 - NA2012 testing season toolkit environment

This contains the certs and Affinity Domain configuration (codes.xml) to be used with the toolkit in preparation for the NA2012 Connectathon. Download from here (zip) and instructions are here.

Contacts

XDS Implementers mailing list
ihe-xds-implementors@googlegroups.com

Bill Majurski
bill At nist doT gov