What is Petals EIP Component

This component implements some Enterprise Integration Patterns, described in http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com.
According the pattern invoked, the EIP component chains some sub-service invocation and can response by a response to the initial caller.

It can split, aggregate, or routing messages, depending of the pattern in used

Recommended Usage

Petals FTP binding component expose an FTP connection as a service in the Petals ESB. It allows JBI consumers to call FTP command. A JBI endpoint is registered into the JBI environment, and is linked to an FTP server, with a configured user/password.

To use this service, the consumer has to call explicitely an operation. When the FTP component receives a message exchange from Petals platform, it call the FTP command associate with the jbi operation.