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Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7

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Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7

Overview of this book

By adopting an SOA approach in Business Process Management (BPM), you can make your application flexible, reusable, and adaptable to new developments. The SOA approach also gives you the potential to lower costs (from reuse), and increase revenue (from adaptability and flexibility). However, integrating basic SOA constructs (such as Process, Business Services, and Components) and core building blocks of BPM (such as Process Modeling and Enterprise Service Bus) in a real-world application can be challenging.This book introduces basic concepts of Business Integration, SOA Fundamentals, and SOA Programming Model and implements them in numerous examples. It guides you to building an Order Management application from scratch using the principles of Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture and using WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB). The various detailed aspects, features, and capabilities of the product are conveyed through examplesWe begin with essential concepts on Business Integration, SOA Fundamentals and SOA Programming Model. Then we set up the development environment to build your first Hello Process and Hello Mediation applications.Gradually, we build an SOA-based Order Management Application. We cover important aspects and functions of WPS and WESB with numerous practical examples. We show how to analyze your application's business requirements and check if an SOA approach is appropriate for your project. Then you do a top-down decomposition of your application and identify its use cases, business processes, and services. Having built the SOA Application, we introduce you to various non-functional topics, including: Administration, Governance, Management, Monitoring, and Security. We also discuss deployment topologies for WPS and WESB, performance tuning, and recommended practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
WID, WPS, and WESB Tips, Tricks, and Pointers
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed how to perform some of the most common solution administration tasks including how to use the admin console and various activities we can perform using it. We discussed how to use the admin console, enable server and application security, install and manage modules, manage users and groups, configure resources, and also troubleshooting. Then we discussed how business space solution and administration space can be used for administering and managing the solution. We briefly discussed about installing versioned SCA modules. Then we moved to discussing how to monitor the applications deployed on WPS/WESB. We saw the different aspects to monitoring, and limited the scope to monitoring the modules deployed on WPS/WESB. We discussed the various tools and capabilities provided in WID/WPS/WESB to monitor the applications and components. We covered how to use BPC Explorer, Business Space, problem determination space, and lastly, an explanation of the fundamentals...