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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

Tour of the Studio


Let's look at the Studio environment. To help illustrate the different windows and views of the Studio tool, we will open a job from the demo project.

In the left-hand column of the Studio tool, we will see the Repository window. The Repository contains all of the artifacts associated with a project—Job Designs, Business Models, Metadata, and so on—as shown in the following screenshot:

Expand the Job Designs section of the Repository and double-click on the job named priorTest 0.1. This will open the priorTest job as shown in the following screenshot:

The Repository

As noted earlier, the Repository window, shown in the top-left of the Studio, contains all of the artifacts associated with a project. This will typically include:

  • One or more job definitions

  • Metadata items such as database connection details, FTP connection details, and file schema definitions

  • Reusable code snippets

  • Business Models that describe the non-technical workflows of a data integration job

  • Contexts—global...