WebSphere Business Integration Foundation – Business Integration Technologies

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Description:

This course provides a broad understanding of the Business Integration technologies offered by the WebSphere Application Server. It covers the Web Services architecture within the J2EE framework, the role of BPEL and PC, and the tool support provided to implement a Business Integration solution.

In this course you will learn the technological underpinnings of Web Services and PC, learn how they are used to connect to and invoke external services and coordinate complex business processes. You will also be introduced to the tooling available in WSADIE (the WebSphere Studio Application Developer - Integration Edition). By understanding the technologies and the tools, you will be able to use WebSphere Application Server to meet your organization's business integration needs.

Audience:

• Implementation Consultants
• Developers
• Support Engineers
• Technical Sales and Marketing Personnel

Objectives:

• Integration and business
• Understand IBM's view of Integration
• On Demand and Integration
• Integration and WebSphere Application Server
• Data discrepancies between applications
• Need for real time interaction
• Key discrepancies
• Need to transform data
• How WebSphere Application Server interacts with applications
• WAS and J2EE
• WSAD Tools
• Resource Adapters
• The Process Container
• How the components work together
• Basics of Web Services
• UDDI, WSDL, WSIF
• Transactions
• Compensation
• Multi-phase commit
• Introduction to WSADIE
• Defining web services
• How web services are used for integration
• Using the WSDL definition framework
• Process flow concepts
• Creating a process flow project
• Importing service definitions
• What is BPEL?
• Language Constructs
• Scoping
• Compensation Spheres
• Basics of PC
• Transforming data via Mediations
• Debugging complex flows
• Using PC for complex flow configuration
• Debugging PC flows
• Creating a new process flow
• Understanding the palette and flow icons
• Connecting control links
• Understand the capabilities of the process container
• Features of the process container
• The JService standard
• Invoking web services
• Service Data Objects
• Exposing EJB's as web services
• Compensation
• The J2EE Connector Architecture
• Understand how resource adapters connect to applications and technologies
• How WebSphere Application Server works with resource adapters
• How resource adapters connect to Enterprise Integration Systems
• Prepare the Application Server for integration processing
• Understand how to configure the adapter for web services
• Use tools to monitor the business process

Prerequisites:

Topics:

• Overview of Business Integration
• Common Integration Problems
• WebSphere Business Integration Architecture
• Web Services Overview
• WSAD Toolset
• BPEL - Business Process Execution Language
• Using the PC
• J2EE Process Container
• Resource Adapters
• Application Server and Integration
• WebServices Adapter
• Monitoring Business Integration Processes