Dear Ethereal Author,
I'd like to know your competent opinion about our approach of a generic decoder solution.
Our Company recently released it's software decoder platform "Decoder Suite", which follows a very generic approach. The Decoder Suite is capable of decoding of any kind of binary data structure, which is based either on offsets or ASN.1 BER notation. Also any nested offset and ASN.1 BER structures are possible.
Unlike Ethereal, the Decoder Suite supports the creation of new data definitions by powerful and intuitive tools, supported by a context-sensitive online help. So own data definitions can be added even by non-skilled users with less effort and without learning proprietary description languages etc.
Depending on the protocol no programming at all or only small code snippets are necessary, which makes the creation of new protocols quick and easy (e.g. the entire H.248 protocol could be entered in only 6 hours!!).
The data structure definition itself can conveniently be declared graphically in a treeview.
XML interfaces and pre-processor interfaces permit the user to directly enhance the functionality according to the particular needs.
The solution exists as desktop version (Win32 platform) and as C/S version, where enterprise wide all users automatically work with the same data without any update or maintenance efforts on the clients. Access to the decoder service is done via web browser, thus use of the decoder service is absolutely independent from the client platform.
Demos and Tutorials are included.
The Product Homepage is http://decodersuite.edb-ag.de/. You'll find much more information there (e.g. the detailed product description as .pdf etc.)
We also provide a public decoding service with protocols provided by the user community. Additionally Protocol- und Pre-Processor definitions can be uploaded to be used by the community and downloaded for own adaptations/enhancements - check out our homepage...
A direct link to our newest version is:
http://www.decoder-suite.com/download/DecoderSuite2004/PersonalEdition/setup.exe
YOUR FEEDBACK TO THIS SOFTWARE WOULD HIGHLY BE APPRECIATED. THANKS IN ADVANCE.
With kind regards,
your Decoder Suite Team