Module Review

This module introduced you to FME Server’s Notification Services.

What You Should Have Learned from this Module

The following are key points to be learned from this module.

Theory

• Real-time systems are message driven and involve small amounts of information. They can be either Notifications or Message Streams.

• The Notification Service handles individual messages. Topics are keywords that define a notification subject.

• Incoming Notification messages are received from Publishers, outgoing messages are sent to Subscribers

• Protocols are the method of communication (e.g. email, SMS, JMS, etc)

• Message Streams are set up using transformers and involve a workspace that runs continuously receiving/sending messages

FME Skills

• The ability to create Topics, Publications, and Subscriptions

• The ability to use the Email protocol for Publishing and Subscribing

• The ability to create a workspace for handling a message stream