Timer Binding - SwitchYard 0.7

The timer binding in SwitchYard provides support for triggering services with fixed timer. It's lightweight alternative for Quartz Binding.

The file binding is built on top of camel-timer. Please refer camel documentation for detailed description of options.

SwitchYard 0.7

This binding have it's own namespace. To use it you must declare namespace with uri urn:switchyard-component-camel-core:config:1.0. Your Maven project should also have following dependency:

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.switchyard.components</groupId>
      <artifactId>switchyard-component-camel-core</artifactId>
      <version>SWITCHYARD-VERSION</version>
  </dependency>

This binding do not depend on switchyard-component-camel and it might be used separately.

Generic options

Following options can be apiled to <binding.timer> definition:

name : name of timer
time
pattern
period
delay
fixedRate
daemon

Binding Services with Timer

Here's an example of what a timer service binding looks like:

<sca:composite name="camel-binding" targetNamespace="urn:switchyard-quickstart:camel-binding:0.1.0">
    <sca:service name="GreetingService" promote="GreetingService">
        <camel:binding.timer>
            <camel:name>GreetingTimer</camel:name>
            <camel:time>2012-01-01T12:00:00</camel:time>
            <camel:pattern>yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss</camel:pattern>
            <camel:delay>1000</camel:delay>
            <camel:fixedRate>true</camel:fixedRate>
        </camel:binding.timer>
    </sca:service>
</sca:composite>