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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

Summary


Managing files is a very important part of the integration development process. Because files are so widely used in integration jobs, we need to have strategies to effectively deal with them and, even though file management is the less "glamorous" part of the integration job—compared to XML mapping or database extraction, for example—its importance cannot be overstated. Moving files in a logical manner, renaming and archiving appropriately, and checking for the existence of a file before attempting to do anything with it is simply good practice. Without these techniques your integration jobs will only be partially complete; so it is highly recommended that readers spend time planning their developments to incorporate these elements.

In chapters 3 to 6, we have spent time looking at specific components and the integration techniques associated with them. Our example integration jobs were focused and relatively simple, but, in the real world, integration jobs are much more complex,...