IFX Implementation Guides

IFX Implementation Guides are developed by members in order to ease adoption and improve interoperability.

IFX Implementation Guide with Web Servides

The IFX Business Message Specification (BMS) is intended to be used as both a framework for SOA implementations and a standard reference for message content. As practitioners build solutions based on the IFX specification they look for guidance to understand the explicit requirements of the standard, the implicit expectations of standard behavior and best practices that result in robust, maintainable solutions.

IFX Forum, Inc. provides this guidance to members and subscribers in the form of the IFX Implementation Guide and a companion Web Services Supplement. These detailed guides provide high level orientation to the framework, detailed discussion of key concepts, use-case walkthroughs and working code samples.

Accompanied by the developer productivity utilities also available to members and subscribers, these guides help jump-start development of IFX-based solutions and enhance developer productivity. Take a look at the sample of the IFX Implementation Guide to get a good idea of how these tools will help you make the most of your decision to adopt the IFX standard. IFX Implementation Guide Sample

In addition to the implementation guides, members and subscribers also have access to utilities that generate fully compliant XSD (XML Schema) files and factor common code from several schema to jump-start the creation of services from several IFX message and object components.

Members and subscribers get access to:

• IFX Implementation Guide
• IFX Implementation Guide Web Services Supplement
• IFX Schema Generator
• IFX Message Merge Utility

If you are not an IFX member or subscriber, look here for more information about becoming a member and look here for more information about subscribing to the BMS.

ATM-POS Implementation Guide for IFX 1.8

The ATM-POS Working Group has developed a comprehensive Implementation Guide for IFX Version 1.8.  You may download it free of charge.  Note that it is a 645-page pdf document, and it may take a little while to load. It is worth noting that although the go-forward version of the IFX standard is v2.x there are many ATM solutions deployed using v1.8. If you are using v2.x, it is still worth downloading this Implementation Guide for ATMs because most of the content is applicable regardless of the message versions used in your deployment.