Developing an Apama EPL Application (251-73E)

Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe how the Apama event correlator (Apama's event processing engine) receives and processes events based on EPL instructions
• Write an event processing application using Apama EPL
• Use the Eclipse™-based development environment to write and run EPL applications
• Connect Apama to an external data source and deploy your Apama projects

Software versions covered

• Apama 10.3

Audience

• Software developers who are new to Apama but have some experience with other programming languages, such as Java or C++

Prerequisites

• Experience writing applications in a programming language, such as Java or C++
• Familiarity with the Eclipse development environment (helpful but not a must)
• The following course is required as a prerequisite:  Apama Overview

Content

• Introduction to Apama EPL
• Defining event types
• Writing your first monitor
• Monitoring complex events
• Generating events
• Writing an Apama query
• Using streams to generate value-added events or items
• Defining reference types, loops and conditions
• Making data available for viewing in an interface
• Spawning multiple instances of a monitor
• Implementing parallel processing
• Connecting Apama to external components
• Deploying Apama projects
• Additional ways to use events and actions
• Sharing, exposing and persisting application data
• Checking for errors in your application

Methods

• Lecture, presentation
• Hands-on workshop

Duration: 5 days