J8583 project for parsing/creating iso8583 financial messages

Question

I'am currently looking for an api for parsing/creating iso8583. iso8583 is a barbarian iso norm of raw string message.

I have found the j8583 project, http://j8583.sourceforge.net/index.html , but i can't found easy code example to parse a message.

Do you know good examples using this api ? or using another api ?

Thank you for your time

Answer 1

Perhaps my answer is biased because I'm the author, but jPOS can be an alternative. Take a look at http://jpos.org and its documentation ( http://jpos.org/doc/proguide-draft.pdf ).

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Perhaps I need to reorganize/improve the docs?

The concept is fairly simple: Create a MessageFactory , configure it (the simplest way is via XML config file ) and use that to parse messages with the parseMessage method, which receives a byte array.

The library includes a simple message parser which you can look at to get an idea. The test suite can also be helpful.

Answer 3

Here is the source code for the project that you can clone https://bitbucket.org/chochos/j8583/src/master/

here is the XML Configuration Guide http://j8583.sourceforge.net/xmlconf.html

All from the same person and framework