IBM WebSphere Message Broker V8 Developer Workshop

Upon completion of the WebSphere Message Broker V8 course, students will be able to:

• Learn how to integrate business and applications following the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and IBM WebSphere Message Broker 8
• Introduce how to design and write message flows, using V8 facilities

• Application Architects
• Designers
• Developers

• This course assumes basic knowledge of XML and messaging. As a result, some basic knowledge of XML, XSLT, XPath and MQ concepts is assumed. Knowledge of Java is also an advantage.

DAY 1 Unit 1 – Introduction to Message Broker Concepts

• need for business integration and transformation
• and explain the functions of the primary components of WMB V8

Unit 2 – Design and Setup Considerations

• review roles and responsibilities WMB components
• set up WMB development environment
• 1 - Setting up the development domain

Unit 3 – Introduction to the Message Broker Toolkit

• the Message Brokers Toolkit
• the components of Toolkit
• steps to create/test message flow using the Toolkit
• the IBM primitives
• components of WMB messages
• 1 continued - Building and testing a message flow application

Unit 4 – Problem Determination

• message flow behaviors
• the different debugging techniques
• 2 - Working with problem determination tools (Trace nodes, User Trace, Integrated Test Client, Debugger, Error Logs, The ExceptionList tree)

DAY 2 Unit 5 – Part 1 Working with Message Broker Nodes

• WMB message parts and parsing
• coding basic ESQL statements
• using supplied nodes and describe use of most common ones
• Subflows and their uses
• working with databases
• 3 - Manipulating a message using ESQL
• 4 - Working with databases and subflows
• 4A – Implementing deployable subflows and ESQL
• 5 - Using the DatabaseRetrieve node
• 5A - Updating a database using ESQL

Unit 5 – Part 2 Developing with Performance in Mind

• reference variables to process message trees
• shared variables
• user-defined variables
• version control implementation
• advantages of using Environment tree
• parsing in XML messages
• 6 – Implementing reference variables in ESQL
• 6A – Caching a database table to improve performance
• 6B – Using the Environment tree
• 6C – Using Opaque Parsing for XML messages

DAY 3 Unit 6 – Working with Message Broker Nodes

• request/reply using Aggregation nodes
• obtaining information from different sources
• Nodes
• use of MQGET node to process replies
• 7 - Sending requests and obtaining replies in a single message flow
• 7A - Using the Collector node to process messages from different sources

Unit 7 – Message Modeling and Mapping

• storing message layouts in the Toolkit
• using graphical data maps
• import/use of C, XML and Cobol structures in the Toolkit
• 8 - Creating and working with a message model using DFDL
• 8A – Importing to create a message model
• 8B – Working with XML models

DAY 4 Unit 8 – Using Java in the Message broker

• the JavaCompute node
• using XPATH to work with message structures
• JMS nodes and implementation
• 9 - Implementing JavaCompute in a message flow
• 9A - Converting an MQ message to JMS

Unit 9 – Routing data through message flows

• Route, RouteToLabel, Label and DatabaseRoute nodes
• 10 - Working with routing techniques.

Unit 10 – Additional input and output options

• Timer nodes
• File nodes
• Email nodes
• 11 – Implementing a time based flow
• 11A – Working with files in a message flow

DAY 5 Optional – select from following list of optional topics for Day 5 (number of topics selected dependent on exercises as topics with exercises require additional time. Generally 3-5 topics for the day). Unit 11 – Using SOAP and HTTP nodes (Optional)

• Web Service support for message broker
• using the HTTP Nodes
• using SOAP nodes
• 12 – Implementing a SOAP message flow
• 12A – Creating a Service from a schema

Unit 12 – Working with Patterns (Optional)

• supplied patterns
• patterns for reuse
• patterns
• 13 – Implementing a supplied pattern
• 13A – Creating a pattern

Unit 13 – Publish/Subscribe updates (Optional)

• Pub/Sub uses
• steps to implement a WMB V8 pub/sub flow
• using filters for publish/subscribe
• 14 – Implementing content filtering

Unit 14 – Working with .NET (Optional – No exercise)

• the .NETCompute node
• .NET methods via ESQL

Unit 15 – IMS and Message Broker (Optional – No exercise)

• and Message Broker interaction
• to IMS
• up to use IMSRequest node
• messaging

Unit 16 – CICS and Message Broker (Optional – No exercise)

• and Message Broker interaction
• to CICS
• up to use CICSRequest node
• with CICSRequest node