What’s the DIFF?
One of the basic tasks Integration Engineers do is to compare files that we use or receive. There are some interesting and useful tools that people can get out there to DIFF files. But on Linux and Unix machines around the world there is a native tool that is almost always present. Amazingly it is called DIFF.
Like some other command-line tools, its interface is not really intuitive. Lets walk through the basics of how to get use out of this handy file comparing tool. (If you are working with and comparing EDI files, you might want to look at the post on how to unwrap your EDI file so that our line by line comparison is more meaningful.)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
If you have just a few Trading Partners, having a unique and separate map for each of them might be a good option. However, if you have plans to scale your integration to 10s, 20s, or 100s and 1000s of trading partners, having a one map to one trading partner strategy is a recipe for a difficult to maintain and support integration solution. And it doesn’t have to be this way. There are a few strategies that will help you create an integration that will scale and be easy to support.