Architecture Review
V8 new service architecture promoting scalability and high availability
Overview of domains, nodes and services
Designer Usability Improvements
New look & feel
Tools and menu changes
Adding a Repository
Autolink improvements
Propagating port descriptions
Using Repository queries
Lab: building a repository query
Transformation Language Changes
New built-in functions: pattern search, encryption, compression, financial
Using Perl style regular expressions for pattern matching
Lab: using search functions
User-Defined functions (UDF)
Overview
Creating UDF
Using UDF
Sharing UDF
Lab: creating a user defined function
Java Transformation
Overview, architecture and components
Setting up
Editing custom Java code
Callable API
Using expressions
Debugging Java transformations
Lab: creating a Java transformation
Transformations improvements
New data types for flat file sources and targets
Custom Transformation enhancements
Custom expressions API
XML
Support for new data types
Support for XML schema subsets
Workflow Manager
Flat file targets improvements
Flat file commands, FTP file lists
Partitioning improvements: flat files, Oracle target database partitioning
Lab: using flat file commands
Pushdown optimization
Overview
Source, target and full pushdown optimization
Implementing pushdown optimization
Lab: using pushdown optimization
Workflow Monitor
Centralized log server
Using the new log server