Feeding a SharePoint Document Library Documents Stored on a Network Share

Question

The question sounds pretty trivial, but an additional complexity is introduced by the fact that the documents are generated non-deterministically on the file share. In addition, there is a requirement to make the box hosting the physical folder being shared; send a message to the SharePoint server that the document is done being generated, after which point the download occurs, followed by moving it to the document library (this post-message process I can handle)

There are multiple situations involving scenarios that require messaging such as these. Would my client be a good candidate for an Enterprise Service Bus (or is that overkill?)

Answer 1

Can't you have the generating process email the document to the Document Library? This is what we have done with most of our legacy, UNIX based report creation routines - email enable the document library and just mail the documents out.

Answer 2

Can you use the document library's network share as the original write location of the documents? Aren't documents written to a document library's network share added to that document library?