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Published inNov 2012
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Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen
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Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan Bowen is an E-commerce and Retail Systems Consultant and has worked in and around the retail industry for the past 20 years. His early career was in retail operations, then in the late 1990s he switched to the back office and has been integrating and implementing retail systems ever since. Since 2006, he has worked for one of the UKs largest e-commerce platform vendors as Head of Projects and, later, Head of Product Strategy. In that time he has worked on over 30 major e-commerce implementations. Outside of work, Jonathan, like many parents, has a busy schedule of sporting events, music lessons, and parties to take his kids to, and any downtime is often spent catching up with the latest tech news or trying to record electronic music in his home studio. You can get in touch with Jonathan at his website: www.learnintegration.com.
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Jobs as subjobs


Talend Open Studio allows developers to use jobs within jobs. This is a great technique to use if you have tasks that can be used over and over again in many integration jobs. Over time, developers can build up a library of standard tasks, and componentizing in this way makes your development quicker and easier and promotes reuse of code, which is always good practice.

For example, suppose you have developed an FTP job that lists the files in a directory, connects to a remote FTP server, and transfers the files before deleting the source files. This FTP job can be designed generically so that it can be used for similar purposes in other jobs. Let's see what this might look like.

Our first job is the generic FTP job as shown in the following screenshot:

Our second job takes a delimited file, processes the data using a tMap component, and then writes the data to an XML file.

We can now enhance this job by bringing in the generic FTP job. In the Repository window, click on the...

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Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan Bowen is an E-commerce and Retail Systems Consultant and has worked in and around the retail industry for the past 20 years. His early career was in retail operations, then in the late 1990s he switched to the back office and has been integrating and implementing retail systems ever since. Since 2006, he has worked for one of the UKs largest e-commerce platform vendors as Head of Projects and, later, Head of Product Strategy. In that time he has worked on over 30 major e-commerce implementations. Outside of work, Jonathan, like many parents, has a busy schedule of sporting events, music lessons, and parties to take his kids to, and any downtime is often spent catching up with the latest tech news or trying to record electronic music in his home studio. You can get in touch with Jonathan at his website: www.learnintegration.com.
Read more about Jonathan Bowen