I've a few questions regarding the Spring-insight technology.
Is Spring-insight open source? I was curious to see the underlying design. I could fine the plugins' source but not the entire package (is it part of tc-server).
Can this data be persisted to a database (for later use)
I read that Spring insight should not be used for production use. I was thinking if this data could be persisted to some datastore and retrieved through a different application. Are there any existing alternatives to Spring insight?
Thanks in advance.
Is Spring-insight open source? I was curious to see the underlying
design. I could fine the plugins' source but not the entire package
(is it part of tc-server).
As of me writing this, Spring Insight itself is not open source, but the Spring Insight Plugins are released under the ASL 2.0 license.
https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-insight-plugins
Can this data be persisted to a database (for later use)
Data is saved internal to Spring Insight and is retained for a period of time (which is configurable). After that period, it is purged from the system. I believe 7 days is the default. There is no way at the moment to persist this data to an external system such as a MySQL or Oracle Database.
I read that Spring insight should not be used for production use.
This is old information. Originally Spring Insight was released as a developer-only tool, called Spring Insight for Developers. As the name suggests, this tool should only be used in development or possibly small QA environments. This tool can be obtained for free (as in beer) from here.
http://www.springsource.org/insight
For production use, you would want to use Spring Insight Operations. This is a commercial product which is available as a part of the VMware vFabric Product suite or by purchasing vFabric tc Server.
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Recently, I started investigation of activiti framework to integrate it into my current project.
In our project we use teradata database.
So I added activiti dependency and created simple bpmn process for testing purposes.
I tested this process with h2 inmemory database and it worked fine.
But when configured project to use teradata I've got exception on spring boot application startup.
Caused by: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: couldn't deduct database type from database product name 'Teradata'
I have googled and found only this topic on internet space:
https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-process-services/does-activiti-support-teradata-database/m-p/17587#M287
It seems there is no way to integrate activiti and teradata for now.
So the reason why I am here posting this question is that I just want to make sure there is no way to reach integration between those technologies.
Any suggestions and ideas will be welcomed. Thank you.
Activiti is an open source product and can be "adapted" to almost any back end transactional database. Transaction support is a must as any BPMN engine is basically a state machine.
Database access is isolated in the entity layer and specific SQL is managed by the Ibatis ORM.
To integrate a specific database, you will need to modify the entity and ORM layers.
Certainly possible and actually not that much work (typically about 30 hours in my experience), but it is work you have to do and maintain yourself.
I work for web hosting company looking to integrate different data sources with BigQuery but the question now is what would be an ideal reporting/BI tool to get the data from BigQuery so proper/fast/easy retrieval/analysis/ reporting can be done with it.
I'm looking into the options suggested by google here: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/partners/ but I was wondering if someone out there has possibly a more hands-on experience that could make a recommendation.
the company works with a mysql based billing system (with client, support, service data) which is the main source of info, along with other chat, cms and inhouse-developed systems that provide other sources of information that allow to maintain the web infrastructure where the business depends on.
Thank you.
It's really hard to answer this. Depends on the personnel you have at hand.
We are doing for idea validation mostly Data Studio.
Some personnel knows Tableau, but once you are out from GCP, all become a slow process, queries and interface updates in 30-60 seconds, as they all relay and store on their own the data.
We have wired some data to ElasticSearch as well, and we use Kibana.
But once it's all validated, we consolidated into our own Dashboards the reports. Mainly because we are mostly developers and can do the programming. If you have a data analyist or data scientist with their own tools, let them use what they are comfortable with.
Always do iteration and versioning, you as a developer should be driven by a good product manager who tells exactly what charts to build out.
I've been running in circles looking for a way to deliver data from a proprietary flat file database (based on the ProvideX platform) to a client-thick web application that makes RESTful requests and expects JSON responses.
ProvideX and Sage MAS 90 provided an ODBC driver that works for pulling tables, but I can't think of a good way to connect the dots without needing to program a bunch of server-side code.
Before I go down the path of programming custom server-side middleware, does anyone have any bright ideas, (or obvious ideas that I have overlooked)?
I am not locked into any particular architecture at the moment because we are hashing out requirements for the web application, so any ideas would be helpful.
ProvideX/Sage provides a web services module, but I can't use it because my company has refused to invest in the software module and upgrade costs. Let's not let that be a distraction, however, because I am still looking for a way to use the ODBC driver in this question thread.
ODBC-ODBC Bridges exist but all the ones I know are commercial.
I am designing a simple C# WCF service using ASP.NET 4.0 and hosted on IIS7, which will be used by .NET and Java web applications and desktop applications to extract data stored in various databases (both local and remote). I am starting to learn how to use VS2010 and WCF after working for a few years on VS2005 and asp.net web services, so am somewhat of a noob to WCF but know a bit about web services and Visual Studio.
Does anyone have opinions on what the best approach would be in terms of project/class/file setup in Visual Studio 2010 to do this, seeing as how I want to maximize code re-use and minimize development time yet still have the ability to connect to the different databases? I have a WCF Service Application project for the service, and have generated a WCF Client to use for testing using svcutil.exe, but now I'm at the point where I need to start writing database access layer code (or "model" code for MVC if that's the design route I need to go down).
Any help appreciated, thanks!
Each of the databases will have their set of nuisances while integration. The first thing you need to start with would be to design your model in more of OO (Object Oriented) fashion than relation DB way. Once such a model is created, you need to implement mapper layer/classes that would map data from a relational form to a OO format. Then for each DB you need to write some data access code. The amount of code you write for data access may well depend upon the tools\technologies you use. You could look into Entity Framework or NHibernate or other such ORMs to decrease the code required to access data. But keep in mind these ORM mappers may require their own set of tweaks to work well with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server.
I'm working on an eCommerce website for a small merchant. This merchant uses Opera (which is based on Visual FoxPro) to manage his in-store inventory, and would like the online store inventory to reflect the in-store inventory.
I'm guessing that my first step is to set up a way to regularly transfer the information from the VFP database to a MySQL database on the website's server. Is there an established process for this? Am I even approaching this problem from the right angle? I've heard a lot about ODBC, but am unsure as to how to implement it or if it's what I'm looking for in this situation.
If it wasn't obvious by this point, I'm in over my head here, and would appreciate any and all advice you may have, including links to articles or tutorials that can help improve my general understanding of all the moving parts here.
Thanks much.
Co-worker developed synchronization process between VFP and MSSQL2008. WCF service which took input directly from VFP.
On other project - as far as i remember, when we tried ODBC .NET data adapter, it had problems with encodings and foreign languages. That's why we used COM+, serialization for communication with .NET.
But it seems to me you are using PHP (eCommerce=>Drupal=>PHP) so you are in completely different situation.
In your case, i would start with checking out if Opera (i guess it's this Opera) provides built-in export and eCommerce provides built-in import. Mostly because it might be tedious work to sync data manually from 2 apps coded by someone else. Then i would research if i/o can be joined and automated (something like scheduled task on win environment). Unfortunately, can't help much more because i'm unfamiliar with those tools, products and technologies.
Anyway - it seems to me like quite hard and dirty task and i wish you good luck. :)
Depend on what is that you are using to implement the website.. in general it is pretty easy with ODBC (In Java , I did it using the jdbc-odbc bridge)