Re: Database Integration Question

On 29 Sep 2003 08:30:18 -0700, zhanngol_at_yahoo.com (Dan) wrote:

>Hello all.
>
>I am currently working on a project for several Hospitals. The
>application is written in Java, and the database is either Oracle or
>MySql, depending on the client. For a while now, we have been asked
>to integrate our appliations database with the databases of the other
>Hospital applicatoins, such as payroll, scheduling and so on. I have
>been looking around online to see how others have done this, and I
>have come up with two standards, the HL7 standard and DICOM standard.

There are some Java class generators which will take the HL7 subset you want and create a series of classes which will parse the HL7 message and return it in a tree form. You walk the tree to get the information in the HL7 message.

Try a Google search for "java HL7 generator class"