Setting Up the Project

In Semarchy Convergence for Data Integration, design-time resources are organized into projects and folders. A project can be used in a team environment and can be version-controlled using source control systems such as Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) or Apache Subversion (SVN).

Importing the Templates

Semarchy Convergence for Data Integration uses process templates to generate the processes from the mappings.
For example, a mapping loading data from an XML file to an Oracle database server uses a process template that contains optimized technical steps for this particular situation.

Processes for handling integration load transactions with the Semarchy Convergence for MDM platform are also provided.

After creating your project, you must import the templates into the workspace.

Note: A project named Global is automatically created in the workspace for hosting the built-in process templates. This project is a placeholder containing the configuration elements and templates shared by all projects in this workspace.

  1. In the Project Explorer, right-click the global project and then select Import....
  2. In the Import Wizard, select General > Archive File for the import source.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Use the Browse button to select the <semarchy_di>/templates/templates.generic.yyyy-mm-dd.zip archive file in the From Archive File: field. Note that the name of this file contains the release dates for the templates.
  5. Expand the tree view and make sure that all the templates and folders are selected.
  6. Click Finish. The import process imports all the templates from the archive file into the global project.

Import these 3 zip files from <semarchy_di>/templates into the Global project:

The global project appears as shown below:

Importing the Pre-Built Project

A pre-built project is provided in the <semarchy_di>/samples/projects/GettingStarted.zip file, and must be imported into the workspace.

  1. Select File > Import in the menu.
  2. In the Import Wizard, select General > Existing Projects into Workspace for the import source.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Check the Select Archive File: option and then then use the Browse button to select the <semarchy_di>/samples/projects/GettingStarted.zip file.
  5. Click Finish. The import process imports the pre-built project content into the workspace.
  6. In the Project Explorer, right-click the GettingStarted project and then select Refresh.
  7. Expand the nodes of the Getting Started project. It appears with the following content.

The Getting Started project contains two folders:

Creating a Folder

To keep the project organized, we will create an additional Process folder to host the processes designed in this tutorial.

  1. Right-click the Getting Started project the Project Explorer and then select New > Folder in the context menu. The New Folder wizard opens.
  2. In Folder Name, enter Process.
  3. Click Finish. The Process folder appears under the Getting Started project.