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EBI External Notifications API Linux Example

There are times we need to execute Business Process Scripts from outside of EBI, on a Linux based system. The information below is shipped and documented by EXTOL. This documentation is circa 2003 but is still relevant today.

Shipped EXTOL Items

EbiNotificationAPI.sh

Below is the shipped EbiNotificationAPI.bat script. The bold items are to be updated. 

#!/bin/bash
HOME=$HOME:/home/ebiowner
NOTIF=$NOTIF:$HOME:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/conf:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/lib:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/lib/EBI.jar:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/lib/dom4j.jar:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/lib/log4j.jar:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/lib/jbossall-client.jar:$HOME/ebi_notification/notification/lib/jboss-j2ee.jar
clear
export JAVA_HOME=/home/jdk1.6.0_02/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME
echo Running EBI Notification API
java -cp $NOTIF SendEbiItmNotif "notification.api" " " 100 "Event Triggered"
echo Finished running SendEbiItmNotif program


jndi.properties

Below is the shipped jndi.properties file. The bold item should be updated if the .bat does not reside on the same machine as the EXTOL Server. 

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces
java.naming.provider.url=jnp://localhost:1099


SendEbiItmNotif.java

Below is the java source code that is shipped with the EBI_Notifications_2.x.zip





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