Plugins

In GreenVulcano^® ESB, a plug-in is a software component that extends the capability to access an external system, database or data in general.

For example, plug-ins are commonly used in GreenVulcano^® ESB to read Excel files (excelreader-call), or for reading/writing a file (filereader-call / filewriter-call).

The following tables show all the available GreenVulcano^® ESB plugins grouped by technology:

File system

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	filereader-call	reading a file present in the file system
	filewriter-call	writing a file in the file system
	filemanager-call	searching, moving, coping, deleting, compressing and uncompressing a file
	fsmonitor-call	getting a XML report of a directory containing the existing, created, modified and deleted files, from the last scan
	remotemanager-call	performing operations to a file present in a remote file system via FTP/SFTP/FTPS
	shell-call	executing a shell command
	rsh-filereader-call	reading a file in a local or remote file system through the GreenVulcano® ESB RSH RMI server
	rsh-filewriter-call	writing a file in a local or remote file system through the GreenVulcano® ESB RSH RMI server
	rsh-call	executing a shell command in a local or remote system through the GreenVulcano® ESB RSH RMI server

WebService

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	ws-call	defining useful information for making a call to a Web Service

Data Base

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	db-call	basic DB interaction
	dh-call	defining the parameter for making a call to DataHandler
	birt-report-call	defining the parameter to generate a BIRT report
	excel-call	defining the parameter to create an Excel report from a DB select

JMS

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	jms-enqueue	performing a queuing/publish operation on a JMS queue/topic
	jms-dequeue	performing a reception operation from a JMS queue/topic

Routing

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	routed-call	creating a routing mechanism at the level of communication channel during the execution of flows, the operation is seen as a simple call
	routed-dequeue	creating a routing mechanism at the level of communication channel during the execution of flows, the operation is seen as a simple dequeue
	routed-enqueue	creating a routing mechanism at the level of communication channel during the execution of flows, the operation is seen as a simple enqueue

Mail

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	smtp-call	sending an email
	pop-call	receiving an email

J2EE

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	j2ee-ejb-call	invoking an Enterprise Java Bean
	j2ee-jca-call	invoking an adapter JCA (Java Connector Architecture) that exposes the interface CCI (Common Client Interface).

LDAP

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	ldap-search-call	searching data on LDAP servers
	ldap-update-call	updating data on LDAP servers

Communication

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	http-call	calling HTTP methods on remote servers
	hl7-call	invoking synchronous services on systems that use the HL7 v2 protocol with messages either standard or in XML format
	jbpm-call	using the JBPM plugin
	jbpm-task-call	using the JBPM TASK plugin
	openspcoop-call	using the Open SPCoop plugin

Utility

	Plug-in	Use this for ...
	jmx-call	invoking MBean methods or set/get attributes on servers
	extract-data-call	extract data from the body of the message
	test-service-call	simulate a test service
	excelreader-call	reading from a Excel file
	generic-call	doing a user developed generic plug-in invocation
	gvcore-call	invoking directly a flow of the GreenVulcano® ESB core
	rules-call	invoking a Rule Engine service

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