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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

Appendix A. WID, WPS, and WESB Tips, Tricks, and Pointers

After a long journey, we are finally coming to the end of this book. We have successfully built the SOA-based Sales Fulfillment Application, designed a deployment topology for it and also addressed management and monitoring of the same. We addressed several topics, capabilities, and features of WID, WPS, and WESB; however, there are always advanced topics and specific how-tos that you may be interested in. While there are several sources available to go and hunt for this information, what if you had some of the most important ones listed concisely? This chapter will be a random yet useful collection of typical questions, how-tos, and tips on different topics when developing with WID, WPS, and WESB. In this chapter, we will cover some of the most common questions related to:

  • WID development tooling and the unit test environment

  • Working with Imports/Exports

  • Managing and administering the runtime

This chapter is meant to be a quick reference where we scratch the surface of some advanced topics that warrant a book by itself. We aim to provide you with the right pointers so that you can get to the appropriate information and not have to search for it.