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Flux’s RestAction is the go-to construct for users orchestrating Flux workflows that involve web service integration. Be it HTTP-based services or SOAP-based services that implement HTTP binding, RestAction comes very handy for developers. Flux has a WebServiceAction which talks SOAP exclusively for services that implement WS-* such as Addressing, Security etc. RestAction has neat XPath [...]

Automated SCP file transfers can be orchestrated in your Flux workflow using SCPAction. This action supports file uploads or downloads using SCP. SCP is basically a remote copy (rcp) through a SSH tunnel. It is easy to setup key-based SSH login for your systems, here is one article describing the steps for Mac. You could [...]

One of our customer was interested in performing a basic HTTP file transfer function using Flux APIs. I implemented a trivial HTTP file transfer Action in Flux plugins project. Here is a sample test case that shows how this action could be integrated within a Flux workflow. Maven users could just drop this dependency in [...]

Note: If you planning to co-locate JDK 5 alongside JDK 6 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7, refer this post. It worked like a charm on the recent 10.7.3 I recently installed Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 4 from Mac Software Update. This update basically installs 1.6.0_24 that contains fixes for security vulnerabilities [...]

Recently I started developing some custom Flux plugins I wanted to share with Flux users. It is always fun to develop custom plugins and use them within a Flux workflow. Our users are more used to the concept of custom actions and triggers. I believe plugin is a more generic and widely used terminology these [...]

In Flux, we have made improvements in recent versions to handle database or network failures and recover from such failures gracefully without needing to restart Flux. Sometimes, it would be nice to notify administrators about these failures and they can act upon them in case of an unscheduled outage. Flux is dependent on the database [...]

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