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filePoller

This component periodically checks the "inbox" directory looking for files. If there is a file or directory present, it adds the file to the "workingSet", which is a collection of files to be processed. The workManger is invoked to schedule the work of processing the file from the workingSet. Another thread is created and the processing of the file begins. Processing consists of marshalling the file (streaming it from disk into a normalized message). The normalized message is sent over the Normalized Message Router (NMR) to the fileSender component per the specified "destinationService" which is specified in the servicmix.xml file in the filePoller component. In this case the "destinationService" is the fileSender component. Finally, after it has been processed, the filePoller deletes the file from the source directory.

fileSender

This component is the "destinationService" for the filePoller. It receives normalized messages from filePoller. The messages it receives are the files that filePoller has transferred to it via the NMR. It converts the normalized message to its original file format and sends it to the destination directory, in this case the outbox directory. This component creates the filename to copy the file to by concatenating the string "sample_" with the process id following by ".xml". The concatenated string is passed to the org.servicemix.expression.JaxenStringXPathExpression bean as an argument to the constructor, as can be seen by the constructor-arg value tag in the XML file.

workManager

This bean is used by the filePoller to increase the throughput of the application. The workManager is a thread pool whose size can be adjusted declaratively in the servicemix.xml file. The other components in the File Binding application ask the workManager for threads as needed. For example, threads are used by this application to periodically (every second) check for files in the inbox. Other threads are used to do the work of processing files (streaming them in, normalizing them, and sending them to the NMR). Note: The fileSender component also uses a thread to do it's work, however, it is not using a thread from the workManager's thread pool.