Hi Looks like you should add this to a FAQ. Its a good questions with a great reply.
2009/9/8 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>: > Hi Mike, > > In fact, it depends on the binding component. The binding components are > responsible of the communication between the NMR (the container message > backbone) and the environment. > > All binding components use a marshaler to transform the "external" > message format into the normalized message format. > > The normalized message transports message payload into a content attribute. > > Let me take an example. I have a servicemix-file binding component. I > define a servicemix-file polling endpoint that periodically read file > into a directory. By default, servicemix-file marshaler expects XML > content in the files, read it and send directly into the normalized > message content. If I need to manage other file content, I need to use > the BinaryMarshaler. > > Now, the target endpoint of my servicemix-file one is a servicemix-exec > endpoint. The servicemix-exec endpoint expects a incoming normalized > message with a XML content (representing an ExecRequest as describe in > the documentation). > If the files contain XML representing an ExecRequest (compliant with the > servicemix-exec WSDL), you can poll it directly and send without > transformation. > But it the files don't contain a "valid" XML for the servicemix-exec, > you need to add a transformation endpoint between (using camel or > servicemix-exec) or define your own marshaler. > > By the way, managing binary format or flat format (CSV, etc) is the > same: you need to transform the format into a XML content compliant with > the target endpoint. > > I hope I'm clear :) > > Regards > JB > > guhaiquan wrote: >> >> hi, I am new to Apache ServiceMix. I ask a stupid question: When >> service system communicates with Apache ServiceMix, Does the message >> must be XML format, even in Files compments. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> regards. >> >> mike gu >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Messenger安全保护中心，免费修复系统漏洞，保护Messenger安全！ >> http://im.live.cn/safe/ > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré (Nanthrax) > BuildProcess/AutoDeploy Project Leader > http://buildprocess.sourceforge.net > j...@nanthrax.net > PGP : 17D4F086 > -- Claus Ibsen Apache Camel Committer Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/davsclaus
