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Contents
Table of Contents
Contents iv
About This Guide 5
What This Guide Contains 5
Audience 5
Prerequisites 5
Organization 5
Documentation Conventions 5
Additional Documentation 6
Contacting Us 6
Content Based Routing 8
Introduction 8
JBossRules based Router 8
Create a Content-Based Router 8
Create a ruleSet 9
Use the XPath Custom Rule Language 11
Use the Content Based Router 11
Splitter 12
Aggregator 12
About This Guide
The Content Based Routing contains contain important information on changes to JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 since the last release and information on any outstanding issues.
This guide is most relevant to engineers who are responsible for administering JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 installations.
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This guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1, Content-Based Routing: this chapter contains information on how to use the content based routing capabilities in JBossESB.
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In addition to this guide, the following guides are available in the JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 documentation set:
JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 Trailblazer Guide: Provides guidance for using the trailblazer example.
JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 Getting Started Guide: Provides a quick start reference to configuring and using the ESB.
JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 Programmers Guide: How to use JBossESB.
JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 Release Notes: Information on the differences between this release and previous releases.
JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 Administration Guide: How to manage the ESB.
Questions or comments about JBoss ESB 4.2 Milestone Release 1 should be directed to our support team.
Chapter 1
Content Based Routing
The Content Based Router (CBR) in the JBossESB can be used to route message to the next destination based on the content of the message. By default the ESB will use JBossRules as it's evaluation engine, however this is left configurable. In the jbossesb-properties.xml there is property called 'org.jboss.soa.esb.routing.cbrClass' in the 'messagerouting' section:
<properties name="messagerouting">
<property name="org.jboss.soa.esb.routing.cbrClass"
value="org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.services.routing.cbr.JBossRulesRouter"/>
</properties>
which can be used to plug in another evaluation engine.
By default the Content Based router uses JBossRules. Read on to find how to bring up CBR, how to give it a specific rule set, and how to send a message to the CBR.
To bring up a Content-based router you need to bring up the CBR-service. Currently this is done by bringing up ContentBasedRouting Service. To do this you need to add an xml-chapter to your deployment-config.xml that looks like the following example which uses JMS as transport protocol:
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<jbossesb xmlns="http://anonsvn.labs.jboss.com/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/etc/schemas/xml/jbossesb-1.0.xsd"
parameterReloadSecs="10">
<providers>
<jms-provider name="localhost"
connection-factory="ConnectionFactory"
jndi-context-factory="org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"
jndi-URL="localhost" >
<jms-bus busid="QueueA">
<jms-message-filter
dest-type="QUEUE"
dest-name="queue/A"
selector="service='CBRouting-SerializableOrXml'"
/>
</jms-bus>
</jms-provider>
</providers>
<services>
<service
category="MessageRouting"
name="ContentBasedRoutingService"
description="CBR Listener">
<listeners>
<jms-listener name="XPathContentBasedRouter"
busidref="QueueA"
maxThreads="1">
</jms-listener>
</listeners>
<actions>
<action class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.ContentBasedRouter" name="ContentBasedRouter">
<property name="ruleSet" value="JBossESBRules.drl"/>
<property name="ruleReload" value="true"/>
<property name="destinations">
<route-to destination-name="xml-destination-nodelivery" service- category="category01" service-name="jbossesbtest1" />
<route-to destination-name="serialized-destination-nodelivery" service- category="category02" service-name="jbossesbtest2" />
</property>
</action>
</actions>
</service>
</services>
</jbossesb>
Define a service and add a ContentBasedRouting
Cbr specific properties to the (jms-)listener:
ruleSet: The set of rules that should be used to evaluate the content. Only 1 ruleSet can be given for each CBR. Just define more router if you need composite CBR routing.
ruleLanguage: In JBossRules you can define a custom (business) language. This (optional) field can be used to pass in that custom language to go with the defined ruleSet.
RuleReload: the rules will reload 'hot' if refreshed
A set of destinations. The destination-name is what will be used in the ruleSet. The service-category and service-name are then used to deliver the message.
A rule set can be created using the JBossIDE which includes a plug-in for JbossRules. Figure 1 shows a screen shot the plug-in.
Figure 1. JBoss Rules IDE. Create a new ruleSet.
To add a new rule simple click on “New Rule resource”. Make sure your rules import at least
import org.jboss.soa.esb.message.Message;
The message will be asserted into the working memory of the rules engine. You can use sub objects of message in your evaluation. This is demonstrated in the JBossESBRules.drl ruleSet where the rule checks if the type is XML or Serializable. Secondly you have to make sure to define:
global java.util.List destinationServices;
The destinationServices List is returned and should contain one or more destination services. The format of the destination service should be:
<service-category>:<service-name>
If you save your rule into the product/core/services/rules package it will be jarred up into the jbossesb-rules.jar. However as long as you your rules on the classpath somewhere JBossRules should find it.
For XML-based messages it is convenient to do XPath based evaluation. For this we ship a custom rule language defined in the XpathLanuage.dsl. To use it you need to reference it in your ruleSet with:
expander XPathLanguage.dsl
and you need to pass it in the name of this file in the attributes like:
ruleSet="JBossESBRules-XPath.drl"
ruleLanguage=”XPathLanguage.drl”/>
Currently the XPath Language makes sure the message is of the type JBOSS_XML and it defines
xpathMatch “<element>”: yields true if is an element by this name is matched.
xpathEquals “<element>”, “<value>”): yields true if the element is found and it's value equals the value.
You can define your own Custom Rule Language.
To make a message go to more then 1 destination (split) simply set up your rules to match more then one destinations. You can also use the Static Router with multiple destinations to achieve this. In either the StaticRouter action or ContentBasedRouter action you can set the process=”split”, which will enable the Aggregator Action to aggregrate the message further down to processing path.
Note that those destinations could be different message transformers to customize the outgoing messages.
The Aggregator action can be used to aggregate message that where split back into 1 message. This message will contain as many message attachments as the messages that where aggregated. The next action in the pipeline should be a transformer action to use the attachments to build a new aggregated message.
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