Depending on your requirements you could write a scheduled service which polls regularly for the file and passes the data to a custom action which parses the file and writes the data to the database. However I without knowing your full requirements I think that the ESB might be a bit of overkill for just parsing a file and writing data to a database. Possibly a more suitable solution would be to use smooks to parse and store the data from the file. Smooks actions can be run within the ESB if you require the ESB. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4261806#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...