In this chapter, we worked with the VFS protocol in order to interact with files from the Enterprise Integrator server. The use of files is really common in big integration projects where we have different servers (some of them can be legacy), and the action of reading and writing files is a normal input/output for servers. In the chapter, we covered a variety of file scenarios such as read, write, and transfer without processing files over different locations, such as the local, samba, FTP, FTPS, and SFTP repositories.
In the next chapter, we will continue with another protocol very important to integration scenarios, that is, JMS. This protocol will allow us to use business queues where we can store the messages temporarily to process later; this is used for reliable messaging and for minimizing the errors in the logic of our services.
