Smooks Data Integration

Rob Greathouse (a co-worker of mine at JBoss) was recently asking me how he might use Smooks to feed Java Objects to a Drools Fusion CEP Process.  I took the offical Drools Fusion Stock Tick CEP example and modified it to use Smooks.  Check it out…

I’m proud to announce a new release of Eclipse EDI Editor, now based on Smooks 1.5. This version includes following improvements:

• Migrated to the Smooks 1.5 (SNAPSHOT), which mean that if Smooks can parse your EDI file you can be pretty sure that Eclipse EDI Editor can do it too. It is consistent with Smooks 1.5 in reading and writing EDI files.
• Improved rendering of Component nodes in the editor (see screenshot below)
• Dynamically loading smooks mapping schemas from the mapping bundles generated by smooks, which are (with fixed MILYN-600) are acting as Eclipse plugins now.
• Bringing not only ability to edit UN/EDIFACT files but also contribute all XML Schemas for smooks EDI XML to the Eclipse, so you could edit and validate EDI XML.

To install the Smooks Eclipse EDI Editor just point your Eclipse Update Manager to this URL:

http://d1ce9rnyxjnscn.cloudfront.net/edi-editor

Here is a screencast that shows how to install and use EDI Editor. I recommend you to install it into Eclipse Helios SR2 JEE distribution (this way you will save time to download missing plugins).

http://screencast.com/t/kwEId1tSce

Source of the plugin is available on the Github:

https://github.com/zubairov/edieditor

Check it out and let us know what you think.