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ISO 8583 Tutorial article

• Introduction for Beginners
• Build and Parse ISO Message using JPOS library
• ????

In the beginning

OK after my article about ISO 8583 let’s go deeper into programming using Java + JPOS library.

Quote from JPOS website:

jPOS is a Java® platform-based, mission-critical, ISO-8583 based financial transaction library/framework that can be customized and extended in order to implement financial interchanges.

So first thing to do is download JPOS from it website.

Then we setup our development environment by creating Java Project using your favorites IDE. Add to the project all jar in JPOS library.
Here’s my Eclipse  package explorer looks like.
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ISO 8583 Tutorial article

• Introduction for Beginners
• Build and Parse ISO Message using JPOS library
• ????

Introduction

Lately I’ve handle several financial project that allow me to understand bank and financial transaction better.
All (or most?) financial transaction is using ISO 8583 standard, which at first I thought is a complicated standard. But after learn and see how it implemented it’s not as complex as I thought.
In this post I will try to explain (based on my experience before I go deeper on the programming side.
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A friend of mine whose expert in SEO told me that subdirectory is better than subdomain in term of SEO.
But I think a subdomain look a lot cooler