Good Morning,

                     I am a newbie when it comes to using switchyard and has been dabbling in it.I have a small application that i created using the switchyard tooling on top of Jboss developer Studio.It basically polls a ftp server, picks up the file, uses camel routing and writes it to a folder on the local disk.The following are the two questions i have

1) I currently have the ftp server, username etc hard coded in the xml file, how to i go about reading the values from a .properties file on the local disk ?I tried finding some samples but was not successful.The following is my switchyard.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<switchyard xmlns="urn:switchyard-config:switchyard:1.0" xmlns:camel="urn:switchyard-component-camel:config:1.0" xmlns:file="urn:switchyard-component-camel-file:config:1.0" xmlns:ftp="urn:switchyard-component-camel-ftp:config:1.0" xmlns:sca="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/opencsa/sca/200912" name="switchyard-myFtp" targetNamespace="urn:com.example.switchyard:switchyard-myFtp:1.0">
  <sca:composite name="switchyard-myFtp" targetNamespace="urn:com.example.switchyard:switchyard-myFtp:1.0">
    <sca:component name="CamelServiceRoute">
      <camel:implementation.camel>
       <camel:java class="com.example.switchyard.switchyard_myFtp.CamelServiceRoute"/>
      </camel:implementation.camel>
      <sca:service name="CamelService">
        <sca:interface.java interface="com.example.switchyard.switchyard_myFtp.CamelService"/>
      </sca:service>
      <sca:reference name="FileWriter">
        <sca:interface.java interface="com.example.switchyard.switchyard_myFtp.FileWriter"/>
      </sca:reference>
    </sca:component>
    <sca:service name="CamelService" promote="CamelServiceRoute/CamelService">
      <sca:interface.java interface="com.example.switchyard.switchyard_myFtp.CamelService"/>
      <ftp:binding.ftp>
        <operationSelector operationName="acceptMessage"/>
        <ftp:contextMapper/>
        <ftp:directory>in</ftp:directory>
        <ftp:host>FTPHost</ftp:host>
        <ftp:username>{{userName}}</ftp:username>
        <ftp:password>pwd</ftp:password>
        <ftp:consume>
          <ftp:delete>true</ftp:delete>
          <ftp:recursive>true</ftp:recursive>
        </ftp:consume>
      </ftp:binding.ftp>
    </sca:service>
    <sca:reference name="FileWriter" multiplicity="0..1" promote="CamelServiceRoute/FileWriter">
      <sca:interface.java interface="com.example.switchyard.switchyard_myFtp.FileWriter"/>
      <file:binding.file>
        <file:contextMapper/>
        <file:directory>D:/Temp/out</file:directory>
        <file:produce/>
      </file:binding.file>
    </sca:reference>
    <sca:property name="props" value="D:/Temp/route-parameters.properties"/>
  </sca:composite>
</switchyard>

I tried the above approach but it errors out and does not work, not sure how to go about this.

2) While using Fuse/servicemix ESB i was able to use processors in routes to transform messages to the format we wanted, the traditional transformation class implemented a "Processor" interface n so forth, not sure how i go about this with switchyard.Do i create a simple bean that does the transformation/translation and expose it as a service and route the message through it ? or is there a better way ?

Thanks in advance