Hi,
I've been lurking on this list for a while and am still struggling with
understanding how a JBI container meets my integration needs. I come
from a traditional integration background (if you must know webm, wli,
novell composer) and am looking to understand how jbi solutions can play
the same role.
So, what I propose is two typical usecases for an integration project.
And am wondering if someone can draw me a picture of all the JBI
services I would need to do this. In some ways, a product mapping. I'm
not concerned with whether the component exists today, but rather the
architectural vision of this JBI thing.
1. SAP Sales Order
Customer says he wants to expose a SAP Sales Order over a webservice.
In a traditional approach I would use the connector to expose the SAP
RFC as XML (or some proprietary record structure). I would do some
click-drag-click mapping of the ugly SAP structure into my lovely
human-readable XML and would then expose this "mapping service" as an
endpoint. This is a synchronous process, but that doesn't matter too much.
Actually, I'll leave it at this simple use case. Depending on the answer
I might be able to figure out the more complicated one.
thanks,
dk-
