Uploading the Sterling Warehouse Management System Configuration Data as XML Files

The Sterling Warehouse Management System provides data upload services for each configuration data entity. Each service extracts the Sterling Warehouse Management System configuration data, converts it to a data format that is understood by VLP, and uploads the data as an XML file to a shared folder.

Data Upload Mechanism

All the upload services have a common structure, and are asynchronous services. The following figure illustrates a typical service.

Each upload service consists of the following components:

The data is first sent to the JMS queue as a request in the Sterling XML format. The data that is posted to the queue is controlled by a template that is provided out-of-the-box by the Sterling Warehouse Management System.

A common integration server is configured for these services, which picks up the request from the JMS queue, and passes it to the XSL Translator. This Translator converts the data to VLP XML format. Finally, the Text Translator and the File I/O Components write the data to an XML file in the common shared folder.

Data Upload Services

The Sterling Warehouse Management System provides the following out-of-the-box data upload services: