FeedAPI is an excellent module to deliver information from the outside world into a Drupal installation. Currently FeedAPI supports to import RSS nodes, which include most applications. But legacy systems (which are probably 3 to 7 years old) and most enterprise information systems have no RSS output that supports only a few fields as a [...]
FeedAPI acts a standard aggregator’s behaviour. For example, when FeedAPI is watching a feed that updates periodically, the items of the watched feed are updated rather than synchronized to the drupal site. This behaviour suggests that if an item does not exist in the updated feed, it is not removed from the drupal site. While [...]
Data Feeding is an important topic in Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). In a normal three-tier enterprise application, the web tier pulls data from the EIS tier that usually exists in an internal EIS. Java EE systems directly employs its API and presentation layer tags, or seldomly, uses another regulated format (XML usually) to pull the [...]
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