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1. Re: Purpose of sending serializable objects across an ESB
tfennelly May 13, 2009 5:10 AM (in response to ezanih)Not quite sure what you mean. In general, this should not be an issue for most users as this is hidden away.
ObjectMessages might be used (over TextMessages) for delivering to a JMS Gateway because you're not always sending character based payloads (XML, text etc). You could be sending e.g. Java Objects. -
2. Re: Purpose of sending serializable objects across an ESB
ezanih May 13, 2009 11:02 PM (in response to ezanih)Exactly! When I consider text objects being sent to and fro across the ESB bus, its easy to see the use - I mean the text could be an e-mail message or probably contain a return string from some process which could indicate success or failure or some other status or action. But I fail to see the point to transmit serialized java objects. What kind of serialized Java objects would ideally be considered for transmission across ESB. Could you give some examples please? Are you saying some objects which contain actual DATA hence a Java entity or an XML record such as the one below ?
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?> <book> <id>1</id> <title>Beginners ESB</title> <author>James Jonathan</author> <price>18.50</price> </book>
So I would get the data for this book through some search process from the Oracle DB (for instance) and then convert it to XML and send it over the bus.
Or perhaps a JPA Entity:public class Bidder implements Serializable { @Id @GeneratedValue @Column(nullable=false) private int id; private String bidderName; private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; public int getId() { return this.id; } public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; } public String getBidderName() { return this.bidderName; } public void setBidderName(String bidderName) { this.bidderName = bidderName; } }
But what about a session bean or a Java class with a method? I mean example, say at the front end, we have a Facelets UI or a portlet that needs some data about a book or a bidder? How does it get it over the ESB? Ok - my guess is we would send it over the ESB as a serialized object using CreateObjectMessage(Object obj). But what if the UI needed to execute a method in some Java object ? How is that done over a ESB?
(Just a short summary will suffice, you don't have to give me link for reading as I know something about how ESB works, thanks!)
Many thanks in advance!