Question: What happened to the Eclipse OHF code?

Jul 8, 2012

The Eclipse OHF project was retired after community interest was diverted to The Open Health Tools project. What happened to the source? Well, of the sub-projects:

Then there’s the H3ET sub-project. This included HL7 v2/v3/CDA code, with the underlying support for UCUM.

Parts of the v3 code got forked. An an earlier version of the code, with UK NHS customizations, can be found in the OHT Static Model Designer or the B2i Open HealthWorkbench. The OHF project team continued to maintain the code-base for longer, but that code hasn’t found a new home since OHF was retired. The current code can be found here as .zip. It’s still good code, and covered by the Eclipse IP rules and license. I really need to find a new home for it, and given it’s pedigree, the logical thing is for it to be hosted as an OHT charter project; however this is blocked by the previous contribution of that earlier fork of the code, and OHT’s unwillingness to host duplicate projects. I don’t have the time to navigate the minefield associated with that, nor does anyone have the months (or more) required to unfork the code. So I’m not really sure what will happen there. Maybe I should just put it up on sourceforge.

The HL7 v2 code was used in the OHF bridge project, and really should become a part of that project - that’s waiting for me and the admins of the OHT project to get around to doing the paper work, refactoring the code into a package namespace, and then making the contribution.

Finally, the underlying UCUM code was contributed the eclipse UOMO project.

 

  • IHE (XDS):
  • OHF Bridge:
  • SODA
  • STEM