Exposing AS400 services

[Zacarias <zm...@gmail.com>]

Yes, I have to conect to an AS400.
I' m proposing to make a service architecture like

*Consumer --> HTTPBC -->  Some component to map the message gathered -->
JMSBC --> AS400 (by MQSeries)*

My question is how can I convert a plain text, which comes from AS400, to a
bean  to be transported to the consumer . What component should I use or
should I create a new one.

Thanks, regards.

Re: Exposing AS400 services

[Gert Vanthienen <ge...@skynet.be>]

Zacarias,

If the only goal of your intermediate component is mapping the XML 
message to a positional plain text format, you can leave it out and use 
a Marshaler on the JMS endpoint instead.  Have a look at 
http://servicemix.apache.org/servicemix-jms-new-endpoints.html first.  
The page only mentions the JmsConsumerMarshaler interface, but a similar 
one also exists for provider endpoint. You would have develop a class 
that implements the Marshaler interface (basically just a few methods 
that allow you to populate a JMS Message based on a JBI MessageExchange 
or the other way around) and you can plug it into the JMS endpoint to 
make it support plain text messages.

If you also need the intermediate Beans for other purposes, you might 
want to take a look at Apache Camel.  If you connect your HTTPBC to a 
Camel SU, you can handle the rest of the flow in Camel -- Camel would 
make it easier to handle non-normalized (read: non XML) messages (such 
as beans and plain text strings) and it too can connect to WebSphere MQ.

Gert

P.S. It's great to see more people using ServiceMix in combination with 
an AS/400 ;)

Zacarias wrote:
> Yes, I have to conect to an AS400.
> I' m proposing to make a service architecture like
>
> *Consumer --> HTTPBC -->  Some component to map the message gathered -->
> JMSBC --> AS400 (by MQSeries)*
>
> My question is how can I convert a plain text, which comes from AS400, to a
> bean  to be transported to the consumer . What component should I use or
> should I create a new one.
>
> Thanks, regards.
>
>