Document how to create multi-input ADS transform

Documentation issue raised by Mark Fynes in connection with ADS/Camel integration and creating ADS transforms with multiple inputs inside Camel. There is a thread in IONA Communities on this question: http://communities.iona.com/message/6155

Here's is Mark's original mail, where he raises this issue:

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From: Fynes, Thomas
Sent: 12 August 2008 17:10
To: Artix-DS-Support
Cc: pm-artix
Subject: Technical problem using ADS and Camel
Importance: High

Hi folks,

I have a problem hosting real-world ADS transformations within Camel and cannot find relevant demos or documentation to get me over this hurdle.

I'm cc'ing PM on this because I truly believe it highlights the need for greater cross-team collaboration. For the veterans on this list, it's not a new problem - I can rant on about AIG/Boeing being ready to kill us because we couldn't easily get SSL working with Wonderwall more than half a decade ago J

Here are the details;

Since the inclusion of Camel within ADS, we can demonstrate pretty advanced transforms running within the designer yet wired to various file drop boxes, ftp sites, jms pipes, etc... The immediate follow-up question from prospects is how this is to run in production. So that's my queue to bring out my IDE with ADS leveraged Camel flows depicted inside. Most real-world transformations have more than once source model. - BoNY, Hartford, etc.. Much more often than not they have multiple CSV or DBMS sources from which they want to construct a formal Stds lib driven document. (One of the reasons we lost the BoNY deal was because of the absence of this type of integration functionality that's now theoretically within the product)

So with a multi-input ADS transforms in hand, I've set out to create demonstration Camel flows that host them (just like the functionality we see within the ADS GUI).

Here's the problem; I cannot find out how to do this - I've been combing the unit tests within the Camel source code, every relevant shred of online documentation on Camel and ADS, I've posted to communities and checked directly with Simon.... James did reply to my communities post, but I'm still not there.

My core problem has to do with how within Camel one creates a flow that's fed by multiple inputs - just like within the ADS GUI for my transform.

Any help would be very much appreciated... I am expected to demonstrate this to customers after all.

Thanks

Mark