WebSphere Message Broker V6 - New Features Workshop

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Description:

Do you need to learn about the new nodes and features in WebSphere Message Broker? If so, this is the course for you. Perform significant hands-on labs to reinforce what you learn in lectures about the new features of WebSphere Message Broker V6.

Audience:

This is an intermediate course for integration specialists, system administrators, and senior-level application developers. Not suitable for novices.

Objectives:

• Describe the environments supported by WebSphere Message Broker V6
• Illustrate the enhancements to the Message Broker Information Center introduced in WebSphere Message Broker V6
• Work with the new default configuration wizard
• Explain the relationship between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and Message Broker
• Describe the overall improvements in the areas of Rational, Extended SQL (ESQL), and mapping introduced in WebSphere Message Broker V6
• Illustrate the flow debugger software requirements and improvements
• Explain XPath and its benefits
• Implement and use the new runtime versioning feature introduced in WebSphere Message Broker V6
• Apply the configuration manager proxy to deploy and remove deployed message flows
• Use the mqsilist commands to investigate what is deployed on the broker
• Apply the new command line utilities to create execution groups, deploy message flows, and create bar files
• Use the new MQGET node to store stable information and get a message from a queue
• Define and use in a message flow: the new timer nodes to cause a message flow to start at periodic levels
• Describe the enhancements of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) nodes introduced in WebSphere Message Broker V6
• Explain and use the enhanced Web services support for modeling and working with SOAP messages and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) attachments
• Create a message set that generates a Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
• Configure the new Java compute node and write basic Java code to understand the filter message class template
• Set up WebSphere MQ as the Java Message Service (JMS) provider and use the JMS nodes to convert a message before putting it to a JMS destination
• Explain the improvements of the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) and Aggregation nodes

Prerequisites:

You should complete:

• WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5 Basic Training (MQ661)

Also, you should have an in-depth working knowledge of WebSphere MQ administration and application programming or have equivalent experience.

Experience with DB2 administration, Microsoft Windows XP administration, Java, SQL, Extensible Markup Language (XML), and XML Path Language (XPath) are helpful, but not required.

Topics:

• WebSphere Message Broker release overview
• Information center
• SOA/ESB positioning
• Broker tooling
• Configuration and administration
• New nodes: JMS, timer, MQGET, and HTTP enhancements
• Message modeling
• ESQL enhancements
• Other enhancements
• Java compute node
• XSLT and Aggregation node improvements