Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V7

Course details

An updated version of this course is available. For more information, click Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V7.5 (WB753).

This instructor-led course teaches you how to build and deploy mediation integration solutions using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Integration Developer. WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus enables a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by providing a platform for business applications requiring a complex integration that will use different technologies. WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus supports a variety of integration bindings, including Service Component Architecture (SCA), Java Message Service (JMS), HTTP, and Web services. In addition, the WebSphere Integration Developer tool set can be used to create integration solutions by utilizing simplified integration mechanisms.

In this course, you learn the concepts, architecture, components, processes, and procedures involved in implementing an integration solution. In addition, this course enables you to design, develop, and test the mediation integration for many of the supported types of integration bindings. You create integration solutions with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and the WebSphere Integration Developer tool set, and learn about mediation modules, mediation flow components, mediation primitives, unified common data structures such as the service message object (SMO), mediation module deployment, and the development-to-deployment life cycle for mediations. You also learn how WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus supports an SOA by working with a variety of messaging protocols, using a broad range of interaction models, leveraging advanced Web services support, and supporting Web 2.0 applications.

In hands-on laboratory exercises, you create several mediation solutions by employing various technologies, such as JMS transport, HTTP binding, the JCA flat file adapters, mediation primitives, mediation flow components, and standard WebSphere MQ messages. The exercises also enable you to create a Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) event using the event emitter primitive, as well as business object maps and Extensible Stylesheet Language transformations to develop message relationships. You also learn how to create various stand-alone utilities for testing and accessing the data on queues.

In additional exercises, you add plug-ins and create a mediation module that uses dynamic endpoints, and learn how to use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) bindings and the JCA Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) adapter, as well as Web services gateways with Web services bindings.

Target Audience:

This basic course is for integration developers, system administrators, support engineers, and technical sales and marketing professionals.

Prerequisites:

Students should be familiar with the following:

• The fundamentals of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• The role Web services play within an SOA
• Web service standards such as WSDL, SOAP, and Web services for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
• Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), including the Java Message Services (JMS) API and the Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) API
• Basic Web services
• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• The features of IBM WebSphere MQ at a high level

Content:

• Course introduction
• SOA and ESB concepts
• WebSphere Integration Developer overview
• Exercise: WebSphere Integration Developer tooling overview
• Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model
• SCA bindings
• Exercise: Service Component Architecture basics and Web services
• Mediation primitive principles
• Service message objects
• Exercise: Creating business objects
• Message transformation and enrichment
• Exercise: Implementing a mediation and using WebSphere MQ binding
• Invoking services and aggregating messages
• Exercise: Using service invoke and message aggregation
• Flow control in mediations
• Exercise: Writing a generic error handler
• Tracing and error handling
• Dynamic message routing
• Exercise: Dynamic message routing
• Using WebSphere Adapters in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
• Exercise: Using the WebSphere JDBC and flat file adapters
• Mediation problem determination
• Exercise: Mediation problem determination
• Administration and event monitoring
• Exercise: Generating and reviewing Common Event Infrastructure events
• Course summary