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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

Testing modules and components


In the last chapter, we tested the HelloBPEL process using the WID unit test environment (UTE) that is installed as a part of WebSphere Integration Developer and consists of a separate installation of the WPS and WESB. We have also talked about the fact that the WebSphere Process Server is built on WebSphere Application Server and contains an Enterprise Service Bus. This helps this server to provide the ideal environment to test HelloMediationModule.

Deploying the modules

You will now deploy your HelloMediationModule on your WebSphere Process Server UTE environment (or the WESB server if you have it set up). In the Server view,

  1. Click on the Servers tab, and start the WPS server by clicking on the green play button and wait for the server to start. This may take a few minutes.

  2. Right-click on WebSphere Process Server v7.0, select Add and Remove Projects. Select HelloMediationModuleApp, and then click on Add | Finish. The HelloMediationModule will now get deployed...