What is the File BC?

File BC provides a comprehensive solution as a transport to interact with the file system within a JBI environment.

Looking at what File BC does at a very high level: On the server side, File BC polls for inbound messages, stored in file(s), in a specified directory. On the client side, File BC puts messages into file(s) in a designated directory.

The design time component of File BC is a Netbeans module that provides plug-in to NetBean's project system and thus defines how File binding can be used. The runtime component implements all required component interfaces in JBI specification and provides the functionality to act as a proxy to services enabled using the file protocol.

Using the File BC

• Using the File Binding Component (Guide)
• Working With the File Binding Component (Tutorial)
• Video Presentation: Operation with In/Out Messages of complex type. This video demonstrates how to define request-response operations using FILE BC and FTP BC with In/Out messages for FILE service and FTP service having complex type defined by a XSD - Greeting.xsd
• User Guide
• Dynamic Binding Using NM Properties
• Using File Binding in Glassfish ESB v3 - this write up shows how to compose an v3 Integration Application with IFL and File/FTP services using IDE tooling and webui as well.

Features

• As a service provider: writes messages as files
• As a service consumer: polls a directory, converts files found into messages, and delivers them to the specified service provider
• And More
  • IN-ONLY, IN & OUT and OUT-ONLY Message Exchange
  • Inbound Periodical(Configurable) Polling
  • On-Demand Read
  • NM Properties (Normalized Message Properties)
  • Clustering Aware
  • File Name Pattern and Regular Expression as Inbound File Name Spec
  • File Name Pattern as Outbound File Name Spec
  • Recursive Polling with Regular Expression Based Exclude Mechanism (Glassfish ESB v2.2)
  • Recursive On-Demand Read with Regular Expression Based Exclude Mechanism (Glassfish ESB v2.2)
  • Application Variables
  • Application Configuration
  • Message Exchange redelivery capability
  • Inbound Message Exchange Recovery (at least once inbound delivery)
  • Inbound Throttling to Control Message In-Flow
  • Multiple Endpoints to poll the same directory
  • Polling and Writing multiple records per file
  • Staging, Archiving and Error Handling files
  • Binary attachment support

System requirements and dependencies

No special requirements

Trouble?

Please post questions on the OpenESB mailing list. File bugs in the OpenESB issue tracker; use the File BC category.

Evolution of the File BC

What is new?

• Roadmap

Team

Developers working on the File BC:

• Sherry Weng
• Jim Fuqian

Developing the File BC

• File WSDL Extensibility Elements Reference
• File Binding Component Clustering Support - Implementation
• File Handling protocol (coming soon)

File BC Source Code

... available on the open-jbi-components project

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