September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
15h 36m
English
You can extend the capabilities of OSB in several ways beyond those it has straight out of the box. The simplest way is to use the Java Callout action to invoke a POJO, as described in Chapter 8. In this chapter, we'll discuss how you can extend OSB's capabilities by adding custom transports beyond the standard transports that come with OSB, such as HTTP and JMS.
OSB comes with a set of interfaces for creating a custom transport, called the Transport Software Development Kit (SDK). You can use these interfaces to create a transport that fits into OSB as naturally as any of the standard transports. In fact, the transports that come with OSB are built using this very same Transport SDK! A custom transport can even have ...