Publication Date:
August 12, 2008
Summary: Availability
of Draft 2009-2010 Application Processing System Specifications for Software
Developers
Federal Student Aid
is pleased to announce the posting of the draft Application Processing
System Specifications for Software Developers for the 2009-2010 cycle.
The 2009-2010 Application
Processing System Specifications for Software Developers is available
in PDF format on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP)
Web site, located at http://ifap.ed.gov.
For readers who are viewing this message electronically on IFAP, the document
is provided as an attachment to this message. Otherwise, to view, print,
or download the document from IFAP, go to http://ifap.ed.gov
and click on "Application Processing Materials" from the right
side of the home page.
The specifications
will also be available in the next several days from the Federal Student
Aid Download (FSAdownload) Web site, located at https://fsadownload.ed.gov.
To locate the specifications for viewing or downloading from the FSAdownload
home page, select the "Technical References and Guides" link,
then select "2009-2010" under "CPS Test System."
Please note the following:
- Testing of these
specifications will not be complete until January 1, 2009. Software
developers should be prepared to receive updates to the specifications
until that time.
- To reduce duplication
between published documents, we have removed the Institutional Student
Information Record (ISIR) layouts from the specifications for 2009-2010.
Draft 2009-2010 ISIR record layouts will be included in the draft 2009-2010
EDE Technical Reference, scheduled to be posted in August 2008 to the
IFAP and FSAdownload Web sites.
If you have questions
related to the specifications, please contact Teri Hunt, Macro International,
at Teri.Hunt@orcmacro.com
or at 301/572-0263.
Attachments/Enclosures:
2009-2010
Application Processing System Specifications for Software Developers (draft)
in PDF Format 239KB, 95 pages
Posted 08/13/08 to www.NASFAA.org. Please submit Web Site questions or comments to Web@NASFAA.org
