Author: Dinesh Upreti | Posted on: 1/16/2009 5:14:53 AM | Views : 338

 

Hi,

I am trying to develop the high level of architecture of a system to process flat files.

Briefly the system is like this.

Files are sent from an external system to a specified location in our file system.

 

There can be may kinds of files with different extensions but all of them has to go through below mentioned process.

 

The file must be picked up by a process/application then go through what is called a primary validation where data is checked for consistency, length header etc.

If errors are reported they are to be recorded in a database. if primary validation passes, then a seconday validation runs which validates each of the data in these flat files against variuos master databses.As in the case of primary validation, erros are to be recored in a DB and if every thing else goes fine, then they are fo ...

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