THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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- Using the distributor's web interface, a department store buyer submits an order for multiple products. An HTTP request is sent to the "OrderReceiver, an HTTP binding component (BC). 3
- The OrderReceiver sends the message to an "OrderRouter" Service Engine (SE) 4 component. This SE is responsible for parsing the order and deciding, based on the message content, which OrderTransformer should receive which part of the message (i.e., an order for a product).
- The OrderRouter publishes the orders to the appropriate message topics based on the message content. Specifically, the OrderRouter publishes the messages based on which wholesaler sells the item.
- The OrderTransformer is a Service Engine component, which modifies the message and puts it in a format which is readable by the wholesaler interface that will fulfill the order.
- Each OrderTransformer sends the modified message to the OrderProcessor.
- The OrderProcessor is a Binding Component that has two functions: a. The OrderProcessor places an order to the appropriate wholesaler through the wholesaler's Webservice or proprietary interface. b. It also publishes a message about the order on a topic.
- The OrderProcessor also publishes a message about the order on a topic.The message on the topic is subsequently picked up by the BusinessMonitor component via the jmsTrace component.
- The BusinessMonitor This component monitors the orders for quality assurance and business analytics, such as data mining.
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- External means the application is outside of the enterprise service bus.
- Resource Adapter: a resource adapter provides connectivity between a specific external application and the ESB. In the _ Basic example the jencks container provides a JMS resource adapater.
- Binding Component (BC): a BC provides connectivity to applications that are external to the ESB.
- Service Engine (SE): a service engine provides business logic and transformation services to other components within the enterprise service bus.