Hi Jay, Thanks for the feedback and all the comments. These JDBC mediators are still new to Synapse and we need to add documentation for those. Plus I think your point is valid and we need to write some tutorials on Synapse. We will do some tutorials ASAP after the 1.1 release and let this list know so that everyone can have a look.
BTW: have you looked at the Data Services stuff [1][2] that Asankha has pointed in this thread. I think dataservices may be with synapse mediation will solve your problem easily. [1] - http://wso2.org/library/2617 [2] - http://wso2.org/library/2631 Thanks, Ruwan On 10/1/07, Jaeger, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to add my voice to those who have expressed interest in JDBC > as > an interface/transport for synapse. > > We have a number of systems in our organization which interact in an > unstructured way, by reading from and writing to each others' > databases. We > have found that in trying to institute more of an SOA approach, that it > has > been very hard to convince projects to invest even modest amounts of time > to > build or user service interfaces. The single biggest reason I am > following > developments of synapse is a hope that if we could expose those databases > in > a more structured way, by coupling an HTTP service to a JDBC SQL Query > (with > data in our out) we could "lift" these interactions out of application > code > into service interfaces without having to write code. Once we have some > services, the client side requesting the service will probably fall into > place, and once we do that, then I think it will be easier to get folks to > define higher level service interfaces. > > But we have to start somewhere, and getting started has proved > challenging. > > I would a;lso point out the need for some higher level documentation / > tutorial. The tutorial is great for installation verification, and as > code > examples, but is not so great for trying to figure out what synapse might > actually be good for, or for understanding what all the pieces do. (For > example, a newbie might ask, what the heck is Axis2, anyway....). > Ordinarily, it is the kind of thing I might volunteer to dig in and do, > but > with a full time "day job" plus teaching a 3 credit course at the local > tech > school in Linux (with labs and all that -- coming to another 12 hours/week > including class time), I just won't have the time. > > JRJ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Ruwan Linton http://www.wso2.org - "Oxygenating the Web Services Platform"
