Message Distribution

Question

Hi,
I want to distribute messages to a great number of receivers.
This time I use as the receiver side the extern file adapter (Plain J2SE Adapter Engine), because I want to be shure, that the message will arrive successfully even if the network connection is interrupted.
The problem is now, that I have to build up some IB Directory objects for every interface (receiver determination, agreement, channel and so on). But I expect to have about 1600 receiver applications, so the number of directory objects would grow up to over 30.000, what makes the solution quite unchangable.
Does anybody see an alternative?
Regards, Udo

Answer 1

Out-of-the-box, yes, that's the way it really works...
So you have a single sender that could go to 1600 receivers - is that right?  You will need a communication channel for all 1600 (and yes, therefore a receiver agreement), unless you have some control over the destination apps, maybe a job can be put on their side to distribute, esp if they are all legacy programs that are easily tied together... 
You will only have one Receiver determination, with all 1600 business systems listed inside it, and perhaps some criteria to determine which ones receive the data?  (or no criteria, and they all will). 
hopefully there are no sequence issues with who receives the file first?  If so, then you need a BPM process to control the flow of this data. 
Like I said, the only alternative is a custom distribution job for the file that keeps a matrix of receiving systems for your file types, and then that jobs runs after XI has output'ed the file.  I'm keeping a watch on this thread to see what others say...