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The Configuring Profiles and Fragments - 1 an Overview page gives an overview of the considerations to be made when using the Editor and thereby makes a good part of the information below redundant The information presented here can be reduced to:
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Protocol Fragments
When a source or target is specified for a file transfer operation a reference is made to a ProtocolFragment elements element. ProtocolFragments are elements in the Fragments branch of the JADE XSD Schema and can be thought of as a series of predefined part configurations that can be called up as required for specific file transfer operations.
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Operationally, the starting point is a Profile, which then calls the protocol fragment(s).
Specification of Protocol Fragments
ProtocolFragments are children of the Fragments element and in turn can have any number of child elements. Example protocol fragment elements would be the FTPFragment and the SFTPFragment.
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Note that protocol fragments can be used for either a transfer source or target as required. This is described in more detail in the next section.
Calling Protocol Fragments
Any number of ProtocolFragments can be specified within a file transfer configuration and any number of fragments can be defined for a particular protocol. A particular fragment is referenced by a name attribute and this attribute is referenced by a corresponding fragment reference element in the configuration Profiles branch.
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The use of protocol fragments is described in more detail in the Configuring Protocol Fragments article.
General Comments
The advantage of this approach - which may at first seen somewhat complex - is that fragments can flexibly reused within the otherwise strict XML hierarchy and that configurations can be validated against an XSD schema. Validation means that the possibility of configuration errors is greatly reduced.
A Fragment can be used as both a source or as a target within the one Configuration.
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The following optional fragments can be specified in addition to ProtocolFragments:
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