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Create the mediation flow

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The import and export must be linked together through a mediation flow to allow data to be passed between them because the interfaces are different.

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To create a mediation flow, follow these steps:

Procedure

Open the assembly editor, if it is not open. Double-click Assembly Diagram under SeparateCustomers.
From the Palette, select Mediation Flow, release the mouse button and then click with the mouse button again when you want the mediation flow to be placed onto the canvas. Place it between CustomersIn and SeparateCustomerOut. Rename the mediation flow to InboundToOutbound. Save your work. From the menu, click File > Save.

The entries you will see in the Problems view will disappear at the end of this section.
Double-click InboundToOutbound. A message asks if you would like to implement the component now. Click Yes. A Generate Implementation window opens. Accept the defaults and click OK. The mediation flow editor opens.
Near the top of the editor, select Add Interface.

In the Add Interface window, select CustomersIn and click OK.
Near the top of the editor, select Add Reference.

In the Add Reference window, select SeparateCustomerOut and click OK.
In the mediation flow editor, click the emit link and from the Select a Mediation Flow Template window click the Operation Map link. In the Select Reference Operation window, select SeparateCustomerOutPartner and click OK. Save your work. From the menu, click File > Save.
In the Request tab of the mediation flow editor, double-click the input_map node to implement the input map.

The New XML Map window opens. Accept the defaults and click Finish. The map editor opens.
In the map editor, expand the emit element to reveal the emitInput element. Expand the create element to reveal the createInput element. Click the Add Connection handle beside the emitInput element. Drag the handle to the createInput element to create a Move transformation.

Save your work. Close the map editor. In the mediation flow editor, save your work. Close the mediation flow editor. In the assembly editor, save your work.

Since emit is a one-way operation and the application is splitting the content into separate files and creating output files from the split content, the application is complete at that point. Therefore, there is no need to map the response.
Connect the components. In the assembly editor, select the handle on the right end of CustomersIn and drag it to the left end of InboundToOutbound. A message tells you that the service interface from the export will be added to the target. Click OK. Select the handle on the right end of InboundToOutbound and drag it to the left end of SeparateCustomerOut. A message tells you that a matching reference will be created on the source. Click OK. Save your work.