[ X9Assist R5.05 Candidate ]

Candidate Build

This page represents our X9Assist candidate build, which mirrors the X9Ware development environment and is a snapshot of our “work in progress” for the next product release. We appreciate your installation and testing of this build as your time might permit. Your feedback on either issues or suggestions are welcome (email to x9assist@x9ware.com). This candidate build can be installed as a companion to our current production release (for example, as a secondary icon on your desktop). This build should not be used for production purposes, since it has not gone through final release testing.

Common Desktop Installer

The X9Ware Desktop Installer is used for all of our desktop products (X9.37, ACH, and CPA005). This single download enables specific functionality based on the license that is used for activation. This includes licensing for: X9Lite, X9Vision, X9Validator, X9Assist, AchValidator, and AchAssist. Once installed, the current product license will default to our X9Lite (freeware) product until a subsequent license is entered, which is done using toolbar function / Help / Registration. After license information has been applied, the attributes and capabilities of your licensed product will be automatically assigned. To make things easy, our X9Lite freeware installation can be used to activate a limited X9Assist product evaluation directly from the toolbar. This allows any user to quickly take an initial look at all of our X9Assist functionality subject to a file size limitation. Please contact us for a full X9Assist evaluation license.

X9Assist R5.05 Downloads

Installation Packages

The BUILD-ZIP package will install on Windows with either ADMIN or USER privileges. The ADMIN installation will be for all users of the target workstation (into the “Windows Program Files” folder), while the USER installation is for the current user only (into the “User/AppData” folder). Both of these installation packages can optionally add a desktop icon and assign the file associations needed to automatically launch files when double clicked.

The MSI-SETUP package installs on Windows and requires ADMIN privileges. This is a standard Windows installer that will appear in Add/Remove Programs, updates the registry, adds an icon to your desktop, and assigns commonly used file associations. The msi installer can be used by msiexec.exe to facilitate managed distributions.

The JAR-ZIP package requires a pre-installed JVM. This package contains application files, the X9Assist jar, and a Windows batch file that can be used as the basis to create your own launch script. You will have to manually add an icon to your desktop.

Update history for this release is as follows:

• 2024.07.10 first candidate build published
• 2024.07.10 X9Assist upgraded from Java 17 to Java 21 which is the current LTS (long-term support) release
• 2024.07.10 X9Assist has an improved auto-restart facility that works in all Java runtime environments
• 2024.07.10 X9Assist has new batch scripts (Windows, Linux, macOS) that provide help on startup failures
• 2024.07.10 X9Assist has new conversion of ACH-to-X9.37 in addition to existing X9.37-to-ACH conversions
• 2024.07.18 X9Assist JVM startup failure resolved due to accessibility assistive technologies enabled
• 2024.07.18 X9Assist use of Apache POI (read/write Excel spreadsheets) now upgraded from 5.2 to 5.3
• 2024.07.18 X9Utilities -repair is a new function that both validates and repairs an input x9.37 file
• 2024.07.18 SDK non-repairable images are only replaced with the missing image when explicitly provided
• 2024.09.09 X9Assist Field Viewer has new option to show field value leading/trailing blanks as bullets
• 2024.09.09 X9Assist/X9Utilities compare has resequencing options to pre-sort in item or transaction order
• 2024.09.09 X9Utilities -exportCsv has added keywords to simplify the export of item MICR fields by name
• 2024.09.09 X9Utilities -split now allows large files to be logically divided by items or bundles
• 2024.09.09 X9Utilities now has a build requirement for Java 17 while the SDK remains at Java 1.8
• 2024.09.09 SDK has new basic compare classes for the x9, txt, csv, xml, json, and binary file formats
• 2024.09.09 SDK X9CompareFiles can now compare inputs that are either files or streams
• 2024.09.09 SDK and X9Utilities are fully split into separate products that must be licensed individually
• 2024.09.09 SDK X9Factory has new “with()” setters that provide a fluent programming API alternative
• 2024.09.09 X9Ware renewal email notifications improved with better instructions and website links
• 2024.09.20 X9Assist Item Viewer displays the calculated skew line when E13B-OCR recognition is enabled
• 2024.09.20 X9Utilities has a new “-lxb” switch which will list all input xml beans to the system log
• 2024.10.03 X9Utilities has new convert -from:xml to convert items defined within xml documents to x9.37
• 2024.10.03 X9Utilities has new convert -from:json to convert items defined within json documents to x9.37
• 2024.10.03 X9Assist Scrub now attempts to show full filenames within the various file name dialog boxes
• 2024.10.03 X9Assist Scrub can easily exclude internal routings (5xxxxxxxx) from micr line replacements
• 2024.10.03 X9Assist Scrub has new routing exclusion table to block specific item micr line replacements

SHA256 hash codes for R5.05 Build 2024.10.03

SHA256 hash of x9assist-5.05-build.zip:
2e850966bed25995c4eefd0127694900b96fe07e01fcc846a4e95297c35c9759
SHA256 hash of x9assist64-5.05-setup.zip:
324f0cf0b2dc5d3af31d5719f7c55150afc35a723523c7c05dc5dce5357a3e10
SHA256 hash of x9assist-5.05-jar.zip:
024160985e77a41f1413bb87eb9762ce9e243a7c8c58ca01c8780e25f61f96d7