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Concepts for Talend Open Studio
What
is a repository? A repository is the storage
location for Talend Open Studio for Data Integration uses to gather data
related to all of the technical items that you use either to describe business
models or to design Jobs.
What
is a project? Projects are structured collections of
technical items and their associated metadata. All of the Jobs and business
models you design are organized in Projects.
What
is a workspace? A workspace is the directory where you
store all your project folders. You need to have one workspace directory per
connection (repository connection). Talend Open Studio for Data Integration enables
to connect to different workspace directories, if you do not want to use the
default one.
What
is a Job? A Job is a graphical design, of one or more components connected
together, that allows you to set up and run dataflow management processes. It
translates business needs into code, routines and programs. Jobs address all of
the different sources and targets that you need for data integration processes
and all other related processes.
What
is a component? A component is a preconfigured connector
used to perform a specific data integration operation, no matter what data
sources you are integrating: databases, applications, flat files, Web services,
etc.
A
component can minimize the amount of hand-coding required to work on data from
multiple, heterogeneous sources.
Components
are grouped in families according to their usage and displayed in the Palette
of the Talend Open Studio for Data Integration main window.
What is an item?
An
item is the fundamental technical unit in a project. Items are grouped,
according to their types, as: Job Design, Business model, Context, Code,
Metadata, etc. One item can include other items. For example, the business
models and the Jobs you design are items, metadata and routines you use inside
your Jobs are items as well.
