Building WebSphere ESB Solutions within the IBM SOA Foundation UK Classes & Lessons (IBM WebSphere)

Also known as: ITS729GBGB

About this class

WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a powerful solution for mediating service requests. Based on Service Component Architecture, it provides a set of pre-built and custom mediation capabilities to perform tasks such as routing, protocol transformation, logging, and database lookup. This 3-day workshop provides extensive hands-on lab exercises of all of these features. Additionally this workshop positions WebSphere ESB within the IBM SOA Foundation.

This workshop uses the latest (V6.0,2) releases of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Integration Developer tools. It also integrates WebSphere ESB with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

Students will explore and build ESB solutions for deployment to WebSphere ESB. They will use WebSphere Integration Developer to perform the typical tasks of an integration developer including modeling, testing, configuring, and deploying ESB-based applications. They will then deploy and administer these applications to WebSphere ESB.

Who will the lesson benefit?

This workshop is aimed at integration developers who want hands-on experience of the features of WebSphere ESB, and want to understand how this product fits within the IBM SOA strategy.

What prerequisites are required

A basic understanding of Web services and SOA.
Some experience with the Rational Software Development Platform (such as WebSphere Integration Developer) would be helpful.

Contents of this class

Explain the architecture and features of WebSphere ESB, fully updated for WebSphere Enterpise Service Bus V6.0.2
Position WebSphere ESB within the SOA Foundation
Develop mediation functions in WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.2 using supplied mediations primitives. These include: XML transformation, message logging, message routing, message element setter, event emitter, and database lookup
Integrate with WebSphere Service Registry and Respository using the service registry lookup mediation primitive
Explore bindings for JMS, MQ, and Web services
Develop samples to extend the integration logic processing in the enterprise service bus by programming custom mediations
Administer solutions deployed to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
Use adapters to connect to enterprise information systems