Orientation and Training

Understand the technical and SOA design principles behind the standard

IFX Forum offers a variety of materials intended to provide a quick start to adopters. When you sign up to access the BMS many of these materials are delivered via email over the course of few months.

In a hurry? Or just plain interested? Use these links here to get a jump start on your technical understanding of the IFX Standard.

Take a few minutes

Most of these videos are less than 10 minutes long and you will have the option to download the associated annotated slide deck that acommponies each one.


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Benefits of membership

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Getting help from IFX community

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How to navigate the BMS UI

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Framework and services model

Learn how the IFX Standard works as a SOA design/development framework

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IFX SOA Implementation Guide

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Benefits of subscribing

Learn about the benefits of suscription access to the IFX BMS and how the tools available exclusively to members and subscribers can greatly improve the efficiency of developing operational implementations.

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Object & message model
  • Gain insight into the role of the Object-Message model
  • Learn how messages can be routed to other service providers
  • Understand how the Message Request Header supports authentication
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Object model details
  • Learn about the design pattern used by every IFX Object
  • Discover how IDs, IDENTs and SvcIdents work together to identify specific data objects and their owners
  • Understand naming conventions that make it easy to find data in the specification
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Object aggregation data

A deeper look at IFX Objects

  • How Aggregate Extensions support renaming as well as extending with additional data. 

  • How Abstract Aggregates work in practice and why they are important.

  • How the Party object makes extensive use of Abstract Aggregates and Extensions.

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IFX 2.0 rollout

Introduction to IFX v2.x - Audio Narrated presentations.  Recorded at the 2010 Annual Meeting, April 2010.  (Contained in Zip files -- note that the files are large and may take 15-20 minutes each to download.)

Instructions for accessing the narratives: download the Zip files, then extract them to a location on your system where you can view the files.  To start a segment, double-click its PowerPoint file (there is one per segment) to open it, then select Slide Show/From the Beginning.

The "Introduction to IFX v2.x" presentation without the audio narrative can be accessed here.