[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss ESB] - Re: Smooks Transformation Integrated

[mark.little@jboss.com]

"tfennelly" wrote : I completed round 1 of integrating Smooks into the ESB.  This included modifying the Trailblazer to use the "SmooksTransformer" for one of the transfomrations.
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  | I've also started and commited a Message Transformation Guide into SVN.  I've still to fill out some of the sections in there but at least it's a start.  It already has a fair bit of detail on Smooks and how it's used in the Trailblazer.
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Congratulations Tom. However, what's the service API look like? How will someone go about replacing this transformation service with another one? I know you have ideas around this, so a separate forum discussion would be good. If this information is in the guide, just point me there. If it isn't, then hopefully the fallout from the subsequent discussion can be used to update the manual.

anonymous wrote : 
  | I'd really appreciate peoples feedback on this please!
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  | As I see it, one of the next big tasks re Smooks integration is that of storing the Smooks transformation configurations in an RDBMS (instead of XML) and fronting that with some sort of admin UI that will make it easier for a human to comprehend what transformations are taking place in a given message flow etc.
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Add some JIRA tasks around your ideas, and assign them to 4.1. I'll take a look later today and we can have a chat about priorities. We already know that we need to improve our tooling, so I can see some of this happening in the 4.0 release.

anonymous wrote : 
  | I think this may be of particular interrest to people like David Degroff.  I'll obviously be touching base with Mark before any of this however, because there may be other priorities.
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  | T.

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