| Thanks for the feedback. Ya, with all the ETL work I've done, I've been cured of any interest in visual programming, "no-code", and the latest iteration of CASE tools in general. Aside from all the BizTalk specific heartache... With patch-cord programming, you always have to drop down to actual code for that last 5% of work, the fit & finish. Then you're fighting the framework (tool). Better to have an API that's easy and bulletproof. My solution for HL7 "interface" implementations was to ingest the specifications (authored by our customer facing business analysts) and output Java source code. Then use any IDE (tool stack) to proceed as normal for that last 5%. We'd onboard new teammates (to do "HL7 interfaces"), most who had never seen Java before, in about 2 weeks. At the time, the assumption was onboarding to ICAN (or equiv) would take about 3 months. (Yikes.) I was always interested in playing with C# and LINQ for our work. But none those sales leads panned out. |