ESB FTP Adapter Help

Hi
I am switch from TIBCO products to Oracle so I am kinda lost. Sorry if these questions are too newbie.
1. Is it possible to configure multiple FTP adapters polling files from various FTP sites? I think it s a YES. Can you tell me how? I need to perform polling of files from 3 different FTP sites and interval of x mins then to trigger other processes
2. If I were to create a manager sitting in front of these adapters to specify how these adapters works, how do I that? Meaning instead of specifying what is the host etc.. It can be done at front end application
Thank you

Hi,
1) with respect to how, check out the SOA Suite Adapters guide that is available here: http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/integrate.1013/b28994.pdf (assuming you use version 10.1.3.1).
Basically:
- Define the FTP Adapter services using a wizard
- Specify connection data for your FTP services in a config file
Hth, Sjoerd

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I seen Oracle has many tutorials and this i like :) However im trying to setup a FTP adapter version of ESB and cant seem to find any tutorials on this specfically. If anyone could help me or maybe explain how i could edit a file adapter tutorial in which they have so that and FTP adapter could work that would be great

Sorry I haven't tried it with ESB, but I do have a blog about "advanced use of FTP adapter" in BPEL: http://darwin-it.blogspot.com/2008/03/configuration-of-ftp-synchronous-get.html.
I do think though that it should not be a very big problem to translate this to ESB, since it is actually the same adapter.
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I created a process that reads from a logical inputDir. I migrated the ESB service to another box and created the same adapter connection etc. however nothing really happens in this new environment. In the opmn.log i see the following statements and no other info.
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Make sure that you modified the oc4j-ra.xml file in the FtpAdapter directory and have put the correct hostname and username and password. The directory structure looks like this //some-directory/oc4j_soa/application-deployments/default/FtpAdapter/oc4j-ra.xml.

Need to get ESB FTP adapter going

I was set on a project over the weekend and so far im pretty sure i have completely failed :) I need to just specify routing rules for server to server connection. We are doing this through FTP, the routing rules will specify certain files to look for, and we have a default account to connect to each server with. Well so far i got two FTP connections in place a read and write one. I am not sure what else i need to implement in order to complete this. My task was to use ESB to do this proces. I have a couple questions however besides creating two FTP connects one read one write what else do i need in this? The routing rules will come after i get this all put together i would assume. Anyway do i need a file adapter in the ESB setup ? It never ask me to specify a username and password but i think that would be specified under integration connections where my connection to the specfic server is? How do i tell me FTP connections to connect to one of my integration connections? I have a development one and a production one, obviously im working on the DEV

No i think my wording was wrong i apologize, not that it will neccessarily use the connection username and password located under integration connection. But it will use this to connect to? Ok tell me if im wrong but it will use this connection under integration connection to connect to some kind of SOA "somewhere"?
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vande
ok i was reading in some of the older forms and came accross this
Re: Simple Questions about ESB and ftp adapter.
Posted: Apr 8, 2008 4:20 PM in response to: user629857 Reply
I assume you are using ESB. Your ESB service will look as follows:
FTP inbound adapter -> Routing Service -> FTP outbound adapter
In your FTP inbound and outbound adapters, specify the logical directory name in the end point properties.
The bpel.xml file is only specific if you are using Oracle BPEL Process Manager.
<---------- this is the exact setup i have right now, does this sound correct?
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vande

ESB- FTP adapter unable to poll a file

I have a FTP adapter it has to poll files, with diff naming convention.(like "asd", 'wer',"jkl","AVC"). But the adapter was unable to poll a file which name start with AVC
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Novice Question: XML File using FTP Adapter Help Requested

I need to create (publish) a message from an XML file that is written to a particular folder on a Win2000 machine (I intend running the adapter on the same machine). I think that the FTP adapter should be the easiest way to do this but I have only used this adapter to publish DL3-defined files, and only then on a unix platform.
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We use the FTP adapter for both reading and writing XML files. And it works quite OK (there are a few gliteches but nothing you cannot work around). You need to first make (find) a DTD for your XML file and import that as the AV for the message in IS (IStudio). Then you just point the adapter to the correct directory and it should work from there.
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Might be worth to notice (if you didn't already know) that you dont actually need FTP if it is on the local filesystems you can in the FTP adapter read from the local FS something along the lines of file:///c:/foo/bar as oposed to ftp://...
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ESB FTP Adapter Not Archiving to FTP Server

I have a FTP adapter in which I have pointed a logical archive directory to a directory on the FTP server. However, the file is not getting archived to that folder. If I point the logical directory to a shared folder on the server it archives the file. Can I not archive a file on the FTP server? I have checked permissions on the FTP folder and they are correct.
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I found the solution to this issue. There is a property named UseRemoteArchive that needs to be set in the WSDL in the <jca:operation> element. See below for details.
<jca:operation
FileType="ascii"
LogicalDirectory="incomingDirectory"
ActivationSpec="oracle.tip.adapter.ftp.inbound.FTPActivationSpec"
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PollingFrequency="100"
MinimumAge="0"
OpaqueSchema="false"
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Using FTP adapter

Hi,
My requirement is I have to read the files from different ftp locations and put them in database.
When ever there is a new record in the database I have to Extract the record and store in the XML. then I Have to move this file to multiple FTP locations.
I know how to do it, if I have to read from a single location and sending to a single location.
Can this be done using ESB FTP Adapter??
If Yes, Please give the steps to do that
thanks
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Is it possible to invoke from a single point and can this service provide the logic to identify the location of the FTP. If so then you can do a synchronous read using the FTP adapter.
When you say FTP locations, do you mean servers, or different locations on the one FTP server. If it is just different directories you can use the FTP headers, have a look at this link. http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/esb/files/esb-presentation-headers.pdf
If the locations are on different servers I don't think this is achieveable as you would need to chnage the JNDI name dynamically, I'm not shure how to do this. You can just add a new route when a new location comes online, this will not change any of your existing code.
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There used to be but in 10.1.3.4 the restriction has been lifted but there are some restrictions. If you have File / Ftp input and File / Ftp out put you can use the MOVE functionality
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12524_01/relnotes.1013/e12523/adapters.htm#CHDHJGHG.
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Hello all,
Is it possible to create a reply message when a FTP Put adapter is failing?
The background scenario is following:
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Hi,
Following is the scenario in Oracle ESB:-------
I created one FILE Adapter for reading file from directory and FTP Adapter to put that file to FTP site in Oracle ESB.
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Hi JTaylor,
I am still unable to find FtpAdapter in the EM (Enterprise Manager) so can't find/change the entry for "eis/Ftp/FtpAdapter"
Following are the some application which are already in my EM.
Applications:-
ascontrol, ccore, coreman, datatags, default, esb-dt, esb-rt,
gateway, hw_services, javasso, orabpel, orainfra, policymanager, ruleauthor ,
rulehelp , WSIL-App
Still i am getting the following error which is related to step 2. Entry in the step 2 & oc4j-ra.xml is the same i.2
""eis/Ftp/FtpAdapter"
An unhandled exception has been thrown in the ESB system. The exception reported
is: "org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.wsif.WSIFException:
esb:///ESB_Projects/Application1_Project2/FTP_Adapter.wsdl [
Put_ptt::Put(opaque) ] - WSIF JCA Execute of operation 'Put' failed due to:
Adapter Framework unable to create outbound JCA connection.
esb:///ESB_Projects/Application1_Project2/FTP_Adapter.wsdl [
Put_ptt::Put(opaque) ] - : The Adapter Framework was unable to establish an
outbound JCA connection due to the following issue: ORABPEL-12510 Unable to
locate the JCA Resource Adapter via WSDL port element jca:address. The Adapter
Framework is unable to startup the Resource Adapter specified in the WSDL
jca:address element: location='eis/Ftp/FtpAdapter'. The reason for this is most
likely that either 1) the Resource Adapters RAR file has not been deployed
successfully to the OC4J Application server or 2) the 'location' attribute in
$J2EE_HOME/application-deployments/default/deployed-adapter-name/oc4j-ra.xml has
not been set to eis/Ftp/FtpAdapter. In the last case you might have to add a new
'connector-factory' entry (connection) to oc4j-ra.xml. Please correct this and
then restart the BPEL/OC4J Application Server ; nested exception is:
ORABPEL-12511 Adapter Framework unable to create outbound JCA connection.
esb:///ESB_Projects/Application1_Project2/FTP_Adapter.wsdl [
Put_ptt::Put(opaque) ] - : The Adapter Framework was unable to establish an
outbound JCA connection due to the following issue: ORABPEL-12510 Unable to
locate the JCA Resource Adapter via WSDL port element jca:address. The Adapter
Framework is unable to startup the Resource Adapter specified in the WSDL
jca:address element: location='eis/Ftp/FtpAdapter'. The reason for this is most
likely that either 1) the Resource Adapters RAR file has not been deployed
successfully to the OC4J Application server or 2) the 'location' attribute in
$J2EE_HOME/application-deployments/default/deployed-adapter-name/oc4j-
Could please give me u r e-mail id so i can send some snap shot to u ? So it would be greate help for me to solve this problem.
Thanks & Regards
Shivraj

Getting filename in FTP Adapter in ESB

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Hi Guru's,
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