Before I embark on experimenting with this capability, can anyone share their experience of integrating the Splunk forwarder with third party systems. According to the link below and other posts on the topic, its clearly possible.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Deploy/Forwarddatatothird-partysystemsd
The idea is to take advantage of the forwarder infrastructure to move large files around (without indexing them). Either to move it from one location to another or to feed it directly into Java applications. Can someone share their experience in this area?