Welcome Message

[Richard Carruthers]

Welcome to the support group for the EBSCO SUSHI SDK. This SDK is
intended to jumpstart your development of a SUSHI 1.6/COUNTER 3.0
client or server by providing .Net classes that have been carefully
constructed to match the specifications. When these classes are
serialized to XML they will match the SOAP/XML schema needed for web
services. A basic service framework and sample projects are also
included.

Every client or server will have its own way of retrieving and storing
usage data with a specific kind of repository (SQL, MS Access, MS
Excel, text files, XML…), but the communication between the SUSHI
server and client will be the same for every solution. Whether you are
sending or receiving SUSHI/COUNTER data, this SDK will allow you to
work with objects rather than XML. This means you will have the
benefit of code completion and type checking as you work. This also
makes the relationships in the data easier to see than if you were
working with a raw XML schema.

Using this SDK will allow you to work on your own specific
implementation sooner because you will not have to deal with the low
level code generation tools .Net provides, or spend valuable time
tweaking your XML code to make sure the output conforms with the
standard’s specifications.

Please feel free to submit any questions about the SDK to this forum.