[esb-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBESB-603) Add the ability to specify the Smooks configuration directly on the action config.

Tue Jun 5 05:32:08 EDT 2007

Add the ability to specify the Smooks configuration directly on the action config.
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                 Key: JBESB-603
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBESB-603
             Project: JBoss ESB
          Issue Type: Task
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
          Components: Transformation Service
    Affects Versions: 4.2
            Reporter: Tom Fennelly
         Assigned To: Tom Fennelly
            Priority: Optional

Since we upgraded from Smooks 0.8 to 0.9, it's a lot easier to specify non-profiled transformations.  

This has the following benefits:
1. Makes the transformation configs a lot easier to write and read.
2. Makes it easier for us to support specifying configurations directly on the action configuration.
3. Being able to specify non-profiled transformations means you don't have to specify the "to", "from" etc attributes on the actions in order to perform a transformation.  You just specify the Smooks config file + the config file itself is a lot cleaner.

Over the weekend, I made the changes to support this and I think it cleans things up considerably.  It's not checked in yet and won't be - unless I get the go-ahead.

I think the profiling stuff is very powereful and we can still support it.  However, I think that for new users, it's a bit daunting so we should just save that for the more advanced usecases where you have a larger message set and you need to share transform configs across them (done via the console).

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