The alert support within the Publish Services enables applications to send alert notifications. The alert message is the text that is used to notify a user of an alert condition. Alerts enable applications to provide personalized notification to its users. Alerts can be routed as email or deposited in DAV for display in a portlet.
Once the decision has been made to send an alert notification,
com.sas.services.publish.alerts.AlertUtil can be used to
send the alert message. This is a utility class that takes an
incoming XML message, parses it, processes the specified
template by substituting any merge variables,
and determines where to send
the resulting alert notification. View the
AlertUtil javadoc for more
details on the XML format.