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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) capabilities. This book shows and explains the new interactive features of Spoon, the revamped look and feel, and the newest features of the tool including transformations and jobs Executors and the invaluable Metadata Injection capability. We begin with the installation of PDI software and then move on to cover all the key PDI concepts. Each of the chapter introduces new features, enabling you to gradually get practicing with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kind of data manipulation and work with simple plain files. Then, the book teaches you how you can work with relational databases inside PDI. Moreover, you will be given a primer on data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. During the course of this book, you will be familiarized with its intuitive, graphical and drag-and-drop design environment. By the end of this book, you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements. Besides, your will be given best practices and advises for designing and deploying your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Doing simple tasks with the JavaScript step


In the first versions of PDI, coding in JavaScript was the only way users had to perform many tasks. In the latest versions, there are many other ways for these tasks but JavaScript is still an option. There is the JavaScript step that allows you to insert code into a PDI Transformation.

Using the JavaScript language in PDI

JavaScript is a scripting language primarily used in website development. However, inside PDI, you use just the core language—you don't run a web browser and you don't care about HTML. There are many available JavaScript engines. PDI uses the Rhino engine from Mozilla. Rhino is an open source implementation of the core JavaScript language; it doesn't contain objects or methods related to the manipulation of web pages.

Note

If you are interested in getting to know more about Rhino, follow this link:https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino_Overview

The core language is not too different from other languages that you might know. It has...