Best Practice XI and Legacy Systems

[Former Member]

__Current Situation__

ECC -> XI -> Legacy System (Replication) -> over 1000 Legacy Sites

Basically XI writes to a Legacy system which replicates the data across 1000+ sites

New Design

ECC -> XI -> 1000+ legacy Sites

The Question:

Is the FTP adaptor able to handle replication across so many sites when messages are extremely frequent, or would it be better to implement a more SOA approach where sites poll XI for information and use the FTP adaptor as sparingly as possible ?

If im stuck using the FTP adaptor to communicate with the legacy systems will it handle sending to 1000+ sites on a very regular basis ??

[Former Member]

Hi Richard.

If you impliment it properly ftp should do the trick. You might have to install some extra java nodes to get the horizontal scalability.

The scenario at the moment is of an asynchronous nature and I imagine the only error handling is that someone picks up the phone if the file does not arrive at the target system.

I would impliment the syncronous SOA scenario if error handling was important and you have enough bandwidth. SOAP is expensive.

Rod