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Publications

Publications receive content from clients over a supported protocol, and deliver the content as notifications to topics. Click on the Publications tab to open the table view of publications. You will see a list of publications, the topics to which each one publishes, and the communication protocol used to send the notification.

Creating a Publication

To create a publication, click New.

  1. Provide a name for the publication.
  2. Assign one or more topics to publish to. Click in the blank space to access a drop-down selector. Alternatively, click Select All to assign all topics to the publication.
  3. Select a protocol. (See below for descriptions)
  4. Protocol-specific fields appear underneath. Complete these fields. For more information, see Publishers in the FME Server Reference Manual.
  5. Click OK.

Protocols

The following are brief descriptions of the available publication protocols. For more information, see Publishers in the FME Server Reference Manual.

  • Amazon S3 Watch: Polls activity on an Amazon S3 bucket, and publishes notifications about that activity to topics.

    • Note: When setting up an Amazon S3 Watch publisher, you can specify how often to poll an S3 bucket. However, keep in mind that Amazon S3 is a pay-per-use service. Every poll is one request to this service.

  • Amazon SNS: Publishes notifications from Amazon SNS topics to FME Server topics.
  • Amazon SQS: Polls an Amazon SQS queue for messages and publishes them to topics.
  • Directory Watch: Monitors activity on a Resource Management or other directory, and publishes notifications about that activity to topics.
  • E-mail (IMAP): Receives e-mail messages from an IMAP server, and publishes the e-mail data to topics.
  • E-mail (SMTP): Receives e-mail messages from SMTP clients, and publish the e-mail data to topics.
  • FTP Watch: Monitors activity on an FTP server, and publishes notifications about that activity to topics.
  • Java Message System (JMS): Communicates with JMS-compliant message brokers, such as IBM WebSphere MQ, and publishes messages to topics.
  • UDP: Publishes UDP messages to topics.

Modifying an Existing Publication

To modify an existing publication, click on the publication entry in the table. A dialog similar to the one used to add new subscribers appears, populated with the properties of the selected subscriber. Make changes as needed and click OK.

Removing a Publication

To remove an existing publication, click the check box beside the publication, and click Remove.