Calling a Mediation Route from an Integration Job

[Anonymous]

Components tRouteInput and tRouteOutput allow calling a job from a mediation route (i.e. ESB -> DI), but I don't see any standard component for the other way around (i.e. DI -> ESB).
What is the best way to do this?

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Great question. DI jobs by design will start up, run to completion, and exit. By contrast, a Route will start up and run as a service until stopped while using resource pools, etc. Based on the design and runtime considerations for each type of solution, it makes sense to embed a job within a route but not the other way around.
Typically the best way to access a route from a job is through standard interfaces like JMS, SOAP, or REST. You could also use FTP, File, or other options if they made more sense for your need.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Ben

[Anonymous]

I see.
In our case we both have inbound JMS and outbound JMS for Talend MDM.
Inbound JMS messages must be handled by Talend ESB and passed to DI through cTalendJob.
I would like to make Talend ESB also handle outbound JMS messages, for homogeneity both in the development and the JMS configuration. The sequence DI > > ESB > doen't really make sense, I suppose in my case using Talend ESB for outbound JMS is not recommended, and homogeneity in our development with symmetric inbound and outbound ESB connectors is unfortunately not possible...

[Anonymous]

The only way around this would be to link the two using a Camel VM component with an embedded Camel producer in the job. I don't think R&D has provided this as a DI component because it would promote a brittle solution architecture - you couldn't move your jobs out of the Talend Runtime and execute them elsewhere.
Based on the little bit I can see of your requirements, it sounds like you should stick with tMOMOutput (or whatever you're currently using) from DI.
That being said, I completely understanding wanting to stay in Mediation/Routes as much as possible
Best Regards,
Ben

[Anonymous]

I see your point about a Camel VM DI component. But the component documentation could mention that this is reserved for collocated routes, and that a distributed protocol such as JMS should be considered for distributed architectures.
Many thanks for your help.