Resources

RETS Reference Implementation

Updated to version 1.5.1, including upload

Avantia has written a RETS 1.5 reference implementation in Java. This is a complete basic client and server, together with some tools to watch the interaction between them. It includes a sample data base. This work was sponsored by the National Association of Realtors®.

RETS Reference Implementation

The documentation for the RETS Reference Implementation is available as a separate, smaller download. (It is also included with the full download.) In addition, the JavaDocs for the source code are available online.

RETS IDX Client
Avantia has written a RETS 1.5 client in Visual Basic that is designed for use with IDX. This work was sponsored by the National Association of Realtors®.

RETS IDX Client in Visual Basic

There are also separate packages containing only the RETS IDX Client source code, and containing only the RETS Visual Basic API DLL.

The User Guide is available by itself in PDF format. (The User Guide is included with the full package as well.)

RETS Compliance Tool
Updated to version 1.1

Avantia has also written a scriptable compliance testing tool in Java. The tool accepts scripts written in XML that test the interaction of a client or server against predefined responses. This work was sponsored by the National Association of Realtors®.

RETS Scriptable Compliance Checker

Center for Realtor® Technology
The Center for Realtor® Technology, a part of the National Association of Realtors®, has many RETS resources for developers, including everything from a simple listing retriever to a complete RETS implementation.

Open RETS Client (ORC)
An open-source RETS command-line client written in Java; visit the project home page for more details.

MD5 Parameter Checkers
[Note: no source code available.] A C++ application that accepts logon parameters as input and calculates the proper MD5 value. Contributed by Stuart Schuessler, MarketLinx.

C++ MD5 Checker Utility

A PHP script that does the same thing, contributed by Dimitri Tarassenko, Advanced Computing Technologies.

PHP MD5 Checker Utility