Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

Using the File or FTP transport to trigger a proxy service upon arrival of a new file

In this recipe, we will trigger a proxy service upon arrival of a file in a certain location. We will implement both, a proxy service listening on a folder in a local filesystem as well as one listening to a remote location via FTP.

Getting ready

In order to make working with the FTP example as simple as possible, we first install a simple local FTP server:

1. From http://coreftp.com/server/index.html, download the Core FTP Server.
2. Start the installer and click through it (leave all options on default).
3. Create a folder C:\work\ftp.
4. Launch the Core FTP Server executable. ...