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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


As you become more experienced with the Studio, you will find that you see more and more opportunities to use context variables. Grab these opportunities with both hands! We have explored contexts by using the traditional "test/production" scenario, but it equally exists for "client A/client B/client C", "subsidiary A/subsidiary B/subsidiary C", and many other situations. Contexts make your jobs more flexible and allow you to reuse jobs repeatedly, with only minor changes reflected in context variables.

Our next chapter, Chapter 10, Worked Examples, will take what we have learnt from chapters 3 to 9 and put it all together in some real-life examples of integration jobs. The jobs are more complex and end-to-end in nature and will show how the Studio can manage the full integration process for you.