That's good to hear. When you mean by "handle requests continuously", I'm assuming you mean the request/response paradigm? One of the issues I have with all of these external data sources is that we have no control over them whatsoever. They can use any format (mainly xml though) and any means of transporting it. We have to design to accommodate for all of these integration disparities--there is no one common format or transportation protocol used. That's where I was hoping servicemix would help out.
Going back to my first data source scenario, can servicemix be runned to poll a directory for files to be ftp'd or must servicemix be notified of files? Again, most of the data sources I will need to integrate will be ad hoc and therefore must be using the polling scenario (pull) versus the notifying scenario (push). Thanks in advance. -los gnodet wrote: > > It seems ServiceMix could be a good fir for your use case. > FTP is supported and xml is the main language for data. > However ServiceMix usually handle requests continuously > and not in batch, but there's no reason why this would not > be possible if needed. > > On 10/3/06, moraleslos wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm new to Servicemix and the concept of ESB/JBI in general. Currently >> I'm >> evaluating ways to integrate various data sources that we use for our >> product. Instead of developing specific integration modules for each >> data >> source, I would like to consolidate all of the data sources being >> imported >> into some sort of integration layer. Hence I came upon ESB and >> Servicemix. >> >> Now, if I continue with the ESB/Servicemix route, I want to make sure >> that >> I'm doing the right thing. I would like to integrate one data source >> first >> before moving along with the others. This external datasource is a >> vendor-specific XML file. Currently we ftp this XML file onto our >> server, >> read/extract contents with a SAX Parser, and store data into our >> database. >> This is runned as a daemon process (e.g. polls for XML files every day). >> For a scenario such as this, can Servicemix/ESB handle this process more >> elegantly? I'm looking at the long term since many of our external data >> sources will be similar to the process described above. Thanks in >> advance! >> >> >> -los >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Would-servicemix-work-with-ftp-xml-integration-tf2376311.html#a6620521 >> Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > -- > Cheers, > Guillaume Nodet > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Would-servicemix-work-with-ftp-xml-integration-tf2376311.html#a6620917 Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
