Local development
Build and test integrations locally with the real FireSonic processing engine.
Community Edition
Evaluate FireSonic on your own infrastructure
A lightweight edition for development, proof of concept, evaluation, and learning — with the same core interoperability concepts used by the platform.
Use cases
What you can build with Community Edition
Proof of concept
Validate HL7 v2 → FHIR workflows with your own data and environment before production.
Integration testing
Test and iterate workflows, semantic rules, and mappings with full local control.
Learn FireSonic
Explore Groovy scripting, semantic rules, administration, and the FireSonic platform at your own pace.
Deployment
Run it your way
Standalone JAR
Run FireSonic directly with Java. No application server is required.
java -jar firesonic.jar
Docker Compose
A Docker Compose configuration is provided. Build the image locally and run it with Docker Compose.
docker compose up --build
Windows, Linux & macOS
FireSonic runs on the JVM and can be started on supported Java environments across all three operating systems.
Community Edition Details
A complete evaluation path
- HL7 v2 MLLP listener
- Built-in HL7 v2 → FHIR R4 core mapping
- FHIR R4 transaction Bundle generation
- FHIR delivery
- Groovy scripting for customization
- Semantic validation rules
- Administration console
- Database backup and restore, including external backup
- Runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Docker Compose configuration provided
Community limits
| Capability | Community Edition |
|---|---|
| Inbound throughput | 5 msg/s |
| FHIR delivery | 5 Transaction Bundle/s (5 POST/s) |
| Workers | 1 intake / 1 processing |
| Semantic rules | Up to 50 |
| Hot reload (scripts / rules) | No |
| Prometheus / Grafana | Not included |
| Batch retry | Not included |
| License | 6 months (free, renewable) |
Community Edition is intended for development, proof of concept, evaluation, learning, and smaller integration workloads. It includes everything needed to explore, build, and test with FireSonic.
Ready to get started?
Request Community Edition and start building locally. Free to evaluate, lightweight to run, and renewable every 6 months.