Category: Flux

Implementing a light weight web service trigger in Flux

Aloha from Hawaii! Shame on me to not blog for months. Well, honestly I have been quite busy during the past few months. With the big move to Hawaii in December and the recent launch of Floify kept me occupied. Although moving to a new place is fun, getting settled on an island can sometimes … Continue reading Implementing a light weight web service trigger in Flux →

Invoking Web Services from your Flux Workflow

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 … Continue reading Invoking Web Services from your Flux Workflow →

Automate SSH secured file transfers in your Flux workflow

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 … Continue reading Automate SSH secured file transfers in your Flux workflow →

Simple Http File Transfer Action in Flux

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. https://bitbucket.org/aruld/flux-plugins/src/99d3ea6bdd5e/http-filetransfer-action/src/test/java/test/HttpFileTransferActionTest.java?embed=t Maven users could just drop this dependency … Continue reading Simple Http File Transfer Action in Flux →

Installing JDK 5 alongside with JDK 6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6

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 … Continue reading Installing JDK 5 alongside with JDK 6 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 →

Flux Plugins for Twitter and RabbitMQ, enabling smarter integration for your workflows

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 … Continue reading Flux Plugins for Twitter and RabbitMQ, enabling smarter integration for your workflows →

Handling Flux Database outages using BoneCP Connection Pool

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 … Continue reading Handling Flux Database outages using BoneCP Connection Pool →