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JMS Listeners

Virtual DataPort can subscribe to a JMS server (Java Message Service (JMS)) to listen to requests. Therefore, clients, instead of connecting to Virtual DataPort via JDBC, ODBC or a Web service, can send a request to a JMS server, which forwards it to Virtual DataPort. Then, the response is sent back to a queue or a topic of the JMS server, which forwards it to the client/s.

When creating a JMS listener you can set it up to:

  • Execute the VQL statements received from a JMS server.

  • Or, define a query with the interpolation variable (@JMSEXPRESSION) in the JMS listener and at runtime, replace this variable with the values received from the JMS server.

The output of a JMS listener can be either an XML document or a JSON document.

Example of how the option a) works: a client sends a message such as SELECT * FROM internet_inc WHERE iinc_id=1 to the JMS server. The JMS server will forward this to Virtual DataPort, which will send a response back like XML response message sent by a JMS listener if the selected output is XML, or like JSON response message sent by a JMS listener if the selected output is JSON.

XML response message sent by a JMS listener
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
    <item>
        <iinc_id>1.00</iinc_id>
        <summary>Error in ADSL router</summary>
        <ttime>29-jun-2005 19h 19m 41s</ttime>
        <taxid>B78596011</taxid>
        <specific_field1>1</specific_field1>
        <specific_field2>1</specific_field2>
    </item>
</response>
JSON response message sent by a JMS listener
[{
   "IINC_ID": 1,
   "SUMMARY": "Error in ADSL router",
   "TTIME": "2005-06-29",
   "TAXID": "B78596011",
   "SPECIFIC_FIELD1": "1",
   "SPECIFIC_FIELD2": "1"
}]

If the request is a DML sentence such as ALTER VIEW incidents CACHE INVALIDATE, the response will be empty (see XML response message to a DML query and JSON response message to a DML query)

XML response message to a DML query
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response />
JSON response message to a DML query
[]

Example of how option b) works: if you have created a JMS listener with the following query:

Sample query defined in a JMS listener
SELECT *
FROM incidents
WHERE taxid = '@JMSEXPRESSION'

When the listener receives a value like B78596014, the Server will execute the following query:

Sample query defined in a JMS listener
SELECT *
FROM incidents
WHERE taxid = 'B78596014'

If the query defined in the JMS listener does not contain the @JMSEXPRESSION variable, the value received from the listener is ignored and the query will be executed “as is”.

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