Tom,

Thanks for your reply..

I had a look at the samples and it seems the helloworld_ftp_action is related to setting up a listener to a directory on the server, making changes to the file content using the Action class  and have the changes visible on the server.

The FTP notifier would help to push a notification to a server.

I am trying to find a ESB solution where we can proxy the connection to a File or a Datasource (a database) ... similar to what we can do for a web service.

Real connection http://localhost:8080/hello-web/HelloService?WSDL

Connection after ESB implementation http://localhost:8080/hello-esb/http/services/HelloService?WSDL

Below is the configuration on the jboss-esb.xml

<jbossesb ....... >

  <services>
  <service category="services" name="HelloService" description="HelloService" invmScope="GLOBAL">
   <listeners>
    <http-gateway name="Http" />
   </listeners>

   <actions mep="RequestResponse">
    <action name="proxy" class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.soap.proxy.SOAPProxy">
     <property name="wsdl"
      value="http://localhost:8080/hello-web/HelloService?WSDL" />
    </action>
   </actions>

  </service>
</services>

</jbossesb>

I am in a situation where the connection to resources (datasources or flat file) might change and wouldn't like to inform the client of the to make chanes on his/her code. I was checking if the Jboss ESB can help provide a solution where we can define endpoints / connections which wouldremain same and make changes to the jboss-esb.xml whenever needed and help avoid changes on the client side.