Module Review

This module introduced you to FME Server’s Notification Services.

What You Should Have Learned from this Module

The following are key points to be learned from this module.

Theory

  • Real-time systems are message driven and involve small amounts of information.
  • The Notification Service handles individual messages. Topics are keywords that define a notification subject.
  • Publications are FME Server objects that listen for and respond to notifications from clients
  • Subscriptions are FME Server objects that push notifications to clients
  • Incoming Notification messages are received from Publishers, outgoing messages are sent to Subscribers
  • Protocols are the method of communication (for example, email, FTP, Amazon S3, etc.)

FME Skills

  • The ability to create Topics, Publications, and Subscriptions
  • The ability to use the Email protocol for Publishing and Subscribing
  • The ability to use workspaces to process incoming notification messages
  • The ability to use workspaces to construct outgoing notification messages

Further Reading

For further reading why not check out this blog article on the FME Server notification services being used to create reports in response to earthquake alerts.

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