Welcome to the EBSCO SUSHI SDK open source project.

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 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.

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