ETL Work - Talend
Extract Transform and Load (ETL) is a general concept of how to move data from one system to another. There are a lot of tools, and a lot of different methodologies to successfully accomplish this. But I want to touch upon a product and ECO system that I've never heard of before, until 4 months ago. Talend is a open source eclipse project that allows you to design ETL work in a visual capacity. It stores its' configuration within XML files, and when you are ready to execute, for debugging or production, it then generates java code and compiles it. My group has bought into the entire Talend ECO system, which combines many different open source projects into an nicely integrated product. But I'm a ColdFusion lover, and this blog is about ColdFusion, therefore, there is two integration points that Talend provides. First, if you buy into the ECO System, then you'll get a Administration server that schedules you, and then you can use modules the consume web servic...