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Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration

By : Jonathan Bowen
Book Image

Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration

By: Jonathan Bowen

Overview of this book

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration (TOS) is an open source graphical development environment for creating custom integrations between systems. It comes with over 600 pre-built connectors that make it quick and easy to connect databases, transform files, load data, move, copy and rename files and connect individual components in order to define complex integration processes. "Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration" illustrates common uses and scenarios in a simple, practical manner and, building on knowledge as the book progresses, works towards more complex integration solutions. TOS is a code generator and so does a lot of the "heavy lifting"ù for you. As such, it is a suitable tool for experienced developers and non-developers alike. You'll start by learning how to construct some common integrations tasks ñ transforming files and extracting data from a database, for example. These building blocks form a "toolkit"ù of techniques that you will learn how to apply in many different situations. By the end of the book, once complex integrations will appear easy and you will be your organization's integration expert! Best of all, TOS makes integrating systems fun!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Worked Examples

This chapter builds on the knowledge we have gained in the previous chapters and illustrates a number of real-life integration scenarios. You will see that the examples use techniques from different chapters and combine file manipulations with database queries, subjobs with file management, for example, to create full end-to-end integration jobs.

You will hopefully have learned now that the Studio is incredibly flexible, and one result of this is that there is often more than one way to approach a task and develop a suitable job that satisfies the integration requirement. Keep this in mind as we walk through the scenarios in this chapter and see if you can come up with different configurations that achieve the same end.

First let's set the scene. Delightful Dresses is a fashion retailer and it operates an e-commerce website to sell its products online. It sources some of its merchandise directly and has an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application to support...