Course Description
This 5-day instructor-led course provides an intermediate-level overview of the WebSphere Message Broker product, with a focus on using WebSphere Message Broker to develop, deploy, and support platform-independent message flow applications. These applications use both point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe messaging topologies to transport messages between service requestors and service providers, and they also allow the messages to be routed, transformed, and enriched as required.
The course begins with an overview of service-oriented architecture (SOA), including why messaging is central to SOA and how WebSphere Message Broker fits into the IBM SOA strategy. Next, students learn about the components of the
WebSphere Message Broker development and runtime environments before examining message flow problem determination and conducting error analysis. Students then explore how to construct message flows that use ESQL, Java, and XSL transform (XSLT), and how to use databases and maps in message flows. They also learn how to implement application connectivity by using WebSphere Message Broker to create message flows that use Web services, Java messaging services (JMS), and WebSphere MQ message transport mechanisms.
In addition, students learn to write more efficient message flows by applying the concepts of message parsing, serialization, and message modeling. Finally, students explore advanced topics such as how to extend the functionality of WebSphere Message Broker by using adapters and other WebSphere products.
Throughout the course, extensive hands-on lab exercises reinforce student learning with practical experience using the skills and concepts that are discussed in the lectures. The topics covered in the hands-on labs include creating and testing message flows, message modeling, retrieving and viewing statistical information, problem determination, and error handling.
Audience
This course is designed for experienced integration specialists and senior-level developers with application development and WebSphere MQ V7 experience.
Course Outline :: WM663MY ::
Pre-requisites
Students should have:
A basic knowledge of WebSphere MQ
An understanding of their business needs
An understanding of current IT technologies such as Structured Query Language (SQL), Extensible
Markup Language (XML), Java, and XML Path language (XPath)
Course Objective
Describe the relationship between SOA, the enterprise service bus (ESB), and WebSphere Message
Broker
Describe the WebSphere Message Broker V7 architectural and documentation accessibility changes
Explain the features and uses of WebSphere Message Broker
Work with the Message Broker Toolkit to develop, deploy, and test message flows
Describe the function of the most popular processing nodes
Choose the appropriate transformation option for a given task and skills profile
Write basic Extended Structured Query Language (ESQL) or Java routines for message manipulation
Transform messages with mappings
Use problem determination aids to diagnose and solve development and runtime errors
Describe supported transport protocols and use some of them in message flows
Create and work with the self-defining XML, predefined, and undefined data formats
Explain how to provide and call Web services with SOAP/HTTP bindings from message flows
Describe how to use Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) nodes for Web 2.0 support
Define, use, and test simple message models with the Message Repository Manager (MRM) parser
Convert data to and from different code pages and numeric encodings
Generate message flows from predefined patterns
Describe how publish and subscribe is implemented in WebSphere Message Broker V7
Define and describe new sequence and resequence nodes
Describe WebSphere Message Broker V7 enhancements for connectivity with WebSphere Process
Server using new Service Component Architecture (SCA) nodes and WebSphere Business Monitor through a new event-generation mechanism
Explain how to extend broker functionality with WebSphere Adapters and both user-written and off-theshelf plug-ins
Describe the enhanced packaged application support for SAP, Siebel, and PeopleSoft
Course Outline :: WM663MY ::
Key topics
Course introduction
Introduction
Exercise: Creating the default configuration
WebSphere Message Broker overview
Exercise: Testing a message flow
Development basics
Exercise: Creating and deploying a message flow
Problem determination
Exercise: Analyzing error scenarios
Exercise: Using problem determination tools
Message transformation
Exercise: Understanding ESQL statements (optional)
Exercise: Filter and compute compliant messages with ESQL and Java
Message models and the MRM parser
Exercise: Modeling an MRM message
Using mappings and databases in message flows
Exercise: Referencing databases and mapping data
Patterns
Exercise: Using patterns to generate message flows
Message flow performance and impact analysis
Exercise: Performance monitoring
Advanced message flow topics
Exercise1: Generic error handler subflow
Additional processing nodes
Exercise: Using MQGet and Aggregation nodes
Exercise: Using Collector, File and Timer nodes
Web services support
Exercise: Using SOAP nodes
Extending Message Broker functionality
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.