Ramkumar Menon's Blog

At times, you might have a requirement where you only need to read the file headers[file name and directory] and ignore the payload while using an inbound file/ftp adapter.

For this purpose, you need to add UseHeaders="true" on the <jca:operation> in the adapter wsdl.

This ensures that the payload is skipped while reading the file.

Then you can follow the usual steps to read the headers [through the inputHeaderVariable on the receive activity to retrieve the headers.