Input and Output Adapters

Input and output adapters enable Sybase CEP to send and receive messages from dynamic and static external sources and destinations.

External sources or destinations can include:

• Data feeds.

• Sensor devices.

• Messaging systems.

• Radio frequency identification (RFID) readers.

• E-mail servers.

• Relational databases.

Input adapters are used to translate incoming messages from external sources into a format that can be processed by the Sybase CEP Engine. Output adapters translate processed Sybase CEP rows into a message format compatible with external destinations.

The following illustration shows a series of input adapters which translates messages from a temperature sensor, bar code scanner and a Java Message Service (JMS) "cloud" into formats compatible with Sybase CEP. After the data is processed by several Sybase CEP queries, output adapters convert the Sybase CEP result rows into updates to a database server, e-mail messages and data for a web services dashboard.

• Standard Adapters
  Sybase CEP standard adapters include the Read From CSV/XML/Regex Socket or File, Write To CSV/XML Socket or File, and JMS adapters.
• Custom Adapters
  In addition to the adapters provided by Sybase CEP, you can write your own adapters to integrate into the Sybase CEP Engine. You can design adapters to handle a wide variety of external requirements that cannot be handled by the standard adapters.

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Created March 8, 2010. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com