Integration Flow for Maximo Inbound Using Enterprise Service

Maximo integration framework has always intrigued me. There are different layers at which the MIF works in Maximo. So a college and me had done an experiment in Maximo inbound integration framework using enterprise service. We extended all the base Maximo integration class and added system.out messages to each of the extended methods.

Below is the flow of class that is called when data has been inbound. The experiment was done on Maximo 7.1 version.

Below is the color code for each of the applications.

Below is the flow of diagram from request XML up to Maximo business object validation.

Then response is followed from Maximo to the response XML.

Setting Current Date in XSL for Maximo Integration

During Maximo integration there is need to transform XML from Maximo XML format to External System(eg Oracle) XML format. There we can use the XSL mapping in Maximo. Maximo converts the XML to destination XML format using XSL language and vice versa. During that time, if there is need to set the current date in the XSL format see the below code spinet.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"  
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  
xmlns:max="http://www.ibm.com/maximo"  
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java" exclude-result-prefixes="java">
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <max:SyncRFQSResponse>
   <max:RFQSet>
    <max:RFQ action="AddChange">
      <xsl:for-each select="max:RFQSyncResponse/max:RFQSet/max:RFQ">
       <max:RFQNUM>
         <xsl:value-of select="max:RFQNUM" />
       </max:RFQNUM>
       <max:SITEID>
         <xsl:value-of select="max:SITEID" />
       </max:SITEID>
       <max:TEST_DATE>
         <xsl:value-of select="java:format(java:java.text.SimpleDateFormat.new('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'), java:java.util.Date.new())" />
       </max:TEST_DATE>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </max:RFQ>
   </max:RFQSSet>
  </max:SyncRFQResponse>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>