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Hey. I suggest you remove large parts of or split up Business Integration Engine 6.0.4 File Tree Structure. It's currently by far the largest module in wikibooks. Would help myself, but I don't know what BIE is. Thanks! &mdash;Snargle 07:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Agree - unsure what to remove
Yes, I agree with you, but at the moment I'm a bit unsure what to remove first.

First, let me explain what BIE is: BIE lets you move data between applications that are unable to exchange data by themselves and create automated workflows. Let's say you work at a doctor's office, which is able to output statistical information as comma separated file (CSV) from a proprietary electronic patient record system (EPR), but is unable to adhere to a national XML standard for such information in your country. BIE can automatically convert the CSV file to an XML version, then the XML version can be mapped field by field to the national XML standard. The links between fields can have macros associated with them, to convert strings from lower to upper case, mathematical or logical operations, regex replacement and so on. BIE handles transport between the different systems as well. See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Business_Integration_Engine_or_BIE for the main article.

Second, Brunswick WDI have chosen to include all dependencies in the download package, just install and run "out of the box". Among the dependencies or plugins in BIE parlance are JBoss, Java SDK, and so on.

Third, the problem with BIE is that although BIE is released under the GNU GPL, Brunswick WDI has chosen to sell documentation and services from day one. This would not be a problem if it were not for the fact that BIE has not been updated for a year, and that users who bought the documentation was not very satisfied in the first place. That is why I've started this documentation initiative. Nobody - or very few outsiders - except Brunswick WDI know how the dependencies interact at the moment. I'm pretty sure that most of the files from Java SDK can safely be removed - I just don't know which files MUST be kept yet.

To make a long answer short: yes, I will clean up the File Tree Structure file, as soon as possible, but I think that will be in January. I have removed the Java SDK entries, hoping that this is just a standard installation. I think BIE 6.0.4 or it's dependencies depend on this particular version of Java SDK.