using BDC for talking to queue

Hi All,

I need my MOSS 2007 to interact with MQseries.
For this,i need to know whether i can use BDC for this or there is any other method to do this.

IF BDC can be used for this, then can it convert the received data to document formats like PDF,XSL etc.
Also can it also send email upon receive of any message.

Regards

You can use the Business Data Catalog to connect to any back-end enterprise application through Web services or databases.

BDC does not stores or convert data, it allows you to model the data from the external system as ¡°objects¡± that can be used by an application in Office SharePoint Server. There are different ways to consume those ¡°objects¡±:

¡¤ Business Data Web Parts

¡¤ In Lists

¡¤ Or by using the runtime APIs, in your custom web parts / application.

I recommend you to look into this link that contains much more information regarding what is BDC: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms563661.aspx

Hi Javier,

Thanks for your reply.

Actually i have already visited the site mentioned by you, but it doen't speaks of mqseries especially, and as oer my understanding, ibm do not provides any webservices to talk to mqseries.

Do the article mean that i have to create a webservice to talk to mqseries and using that webservice, we can pull out the data.

then i have to create a list or webpart to consume that.

in that list i can do coding to convert it to pdf and send mail.

Am i correct in this understanding.

cheers

Correct, you will need to provide a web service interface.

For the conversion part, you could do your own code and talk to the BDC runtime to get the data, then you could transform into the format you need.

On the BDC web part, you could have an action that invokes your "convert" functionality. BDC allows you to customize the actions on the BDC web parts.

Javier

Hi Javier,

Thanks for your reply.

I have been told by somebody that xml to pdf converter is not available as a part of bdc in sharepoint

Can you throw some light on this.

Cheers

That is correct. BDC does not provide any conversion functionality.

BDC allows you to model external data (usually a backend system) and make the data accsesible in SharePoint.

In the BDC application definition file you will describe the external data system:

Define the data objects (entities)

Define methods like find specific, finder, etc. (These map to web method calls or calls to ADO .NET)

Set the authentication properties

And other settings

Then the BDC webparts using the BDC runtime will execute methods like finder to fetch the data form the external data system.

Other webparts like list may also consume these BDC applications.

You can always create your code and use the runtime for custom parts / actions.

These are just few of the features that BDC offers, BDC does not provide data manipulation.

Javier

Oh my mistake.i wasn't been able to put my query corretly.

I wanted to know about document conversion feature provided by sharepoint.

for this ,you may refer to http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f7d7b652-10cc-4c99-8c05-0cc4341d4d941033.mspx

So i need to know whether any xml-pdf document converter is available in sharepoint.

Cheers

I recomend you to post the document conversion question in this forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=1203&SiteID=1

They should be able to provide more details.

Thanks,

Javier