Integration using XML files or XML content

[Former Member]

Hi all,

We have decided to define an standard of format file in our organization. This standard will be XML format as we are aware that this is an open standard and XI works internally with it, as well as scalability and many other things...

I would like to know which are the pros and cons of using it (obviously, from your point of view) and what adapters might we use in order to be able to move XML files (or XML content) from one system to other/s.

I know we can use FILE adapter and think that we also can use HTTP and SOAP but dunno how to ellaborate with these 2. Could you please help me with this? is there any good blog showing this kind of scenarios?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance and best regards,

David

[Former Member]

Hi David,

XI/PI is like any other middle ware tool you use in your organisation for interconnecting various systems. PI has several adapters which can "talk" to several systems.

An example would be JDBC adapter can "talk" to Databases with JDBC drivers.

SOAP adapter can "talk" to Webservice and JMS adapters can "talk" with Queues.

If you are looking at ways to communicate only with files, then File adapter can help you. As you said XI uses XML internally. But XI/PI is much more powerful than that. You can use it to communicate with Db/webservices/Queues/http

Hope I dint add up to your confusion.

Regards,

Jaishankar