Course description: Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2 (Remote)

An updated version of this course is available. For more information, click Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V7 (Remote) (VB713)

PLEASE NOTE: This course is also available as a Self Paced Virtual Course (E-Learning) - Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2 (SPVC) (ZB213)

Please note this option does not require any travel.

NOTE: THIS IS AN INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS COURSE.

PLEASE NOTE: This course is also available as an Instructor Led Class - Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2 (WB213)

This five-day instructor-led course teaches students 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. In addition, the WebSphere Integration Developer tool set can be used to create integration solutions by utilizing simplified integration mechanisms.

Students who want to learn about WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, but are already familiar with WebSphere Process Server and have completed course Developing Business Integration Solutions for IBM WebSphere Process Server - I (WB111)/(VB111), may wish to enroll in course IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.1 for Integration Developers (WB132)/(VB132) instead of this course.

Through instructor-led lectures and hands-on labs, students learn the concepts, architecture, components, processes, and procedures involved in implementing an integrated integration solution. WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus currently supports six types of integration:

• Web services description language (WSDL)
• Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
• Java Messaging Service (JMS) using queues
• Generic JMS
• WebSphere MQ
• J2EE Connector Architecture (J2C) Adapters

In this course, students design, develop, and test the mediation integration for five of the six types of integration mentioned above. Students create integration solutions with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and the WebSphere Integration Developer tool set, learning about mediation modules, mediation flow components, mediation primitives, unified common data structure (SMO), mediation module deployment, and the development-to-deployment life cycle for mediations.

Students 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 utilizing its support for Web 2.0 applications.

In hands-on laboratory exercises, students create several mediation solutions by employing different technologies, such as JMS transport, HTTP binding, JCA flat file adapters, mediation primitives, mediation flow components, and standard WebSphere MQ messages. The course exercises also enable students to create a Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) event using the new event emitter primitive, as well as business object maps that use static relationships.  Students also use the XMS client and standalone references to access the data on the queues and services in testing. Finally, students use the IBM tools SIBUtil and SIBExplorer for testing and managing data on bus queues.

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

For information on other related WebSphere courses, visit the WebSphere Education Training Paths Web site:

http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/paths/

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Training Paths that reference this course are:

• Integration Developer Skills for WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus v6.2

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IBM Education Advantage Program Eligibility:

• Yes - IBM Education Pack - online account

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

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Before taking this course, 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 (J2EE)
• J2EE 1.4, specifically Web Services for J2EE, Java API for XML, Web Services, JMS, JCA, and Web services
• IBM WebSphere Application Server V6
• The features of IBM WebSphere MQ at a high level

Students who are familiar with WebSphere Process Server who have already completed course Developing Business Integration Solutions for IBM WebSphere Process Server - I (WB111) / (VB111) and want to learn about WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus may wish to enroll in IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.1 for Integration Developers (WB132) / (VB132) instead of this course. Students who have taken WB132/VB132 should not take this course.

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• Describe the role of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in the IBM SOA reference architecture
• Describe the ESB capabilities of IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2
• Explain the Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model for IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2
• Explain the message models and data models used in IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2
• Describe data binding, mapping, and relationship capabilities
• Describe key concepts for development and deployment of mediations: mediation modules, mediation flows, and mediation primitives
• Use IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2 for Web services and JMS-based integration
• Develop, test, and debug mediation flows with IBM WebSphere Integration Developer V6.2
• Use the IBM WebSphere Integration Developer V6.2 tooling to specify the events to be monitored within mediations
• Deploy mediation modules to the IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.2 runtime
• Develop and test mediations that use WebSphere adapters to integrate with enterprise information systems (EIS)
• Implement application integration using the IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus product
• Integrate WebSphere MQ with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

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• Course introduction
• Introduction to the enterprise service bus
• IBM enterprise service bus products
• WebSphere Integration Developer overview
• Service Component Architecture and the SCA programming model
• Exercise: SCA basics and the Web services interface
• Technical introduction to WebSphere platform messaging
• Exercise: WebSphere platform messaging basics
• Mediations in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
• Message models, data models, mapping, and relationships
• Exercise: Mapping and relationships
• JMS-based integration
• Exercise: JMS-based integration
• Web services-based integration
• Exercise: HTTP bindings
• Mediation programming (part 1)
• Exercise: Mediations
• Mediation programming (part 2)
• Exercise: Aggregation and dynamic endpoint
• JCA adapter-based integration
• Exercise: Flat files adapter and JDBC adapter
• Integration with WebSphere MQ
• Exercise: Native MQ binding
• Monitoring mediations with the Common Event Infrastructure
• Exercise: Generating events using the Event Emitter primitive
• Course summary

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