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A hypothetical business scenario: An online wholesale distributor of books and music CDs, receives a nightly order from a retail store. The nightly order is transmitted to the distributor as a file and placed in a particular directory on disk. There is a ServiceMix component (getOrders) that continually scans that directory looking for order files. When it sees a file, it reads it from the disk, then transforms it into a normalized message. It sends the message over the bus (NMR) to another component called "placeOrders." The placeOrders program divides the order into separate orders for its' suppliers, e.g., one order will be placed with the distributor's book supplier, one order will go to the CD supplier, etc. At some later point, the suppliers will log in and retrieve their order files. This step is not shown here.

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