WebSphere Message Broker v6 Application Programmer Workshop

Course Overview

General product overview,offering the opportunity for significant hands-on labs to reinforce lectures. The course concentrates on application programming facilities and techniques in WebSphere Message Broker V6.

Audience

The audience will be comprised of integration specialists and senior level application programmers from both customer and business partner organizations.

Prerequisites

Understanding WebSphere MQ application programming concepts is mandatory.

The following additional skills will be very helpful:

• SQL language
• XML
• Java
• XPath
• MQ01 MQSeries Technical Introduction
• A Technical Introduction to WebSphere MQ (MQ01GB)

Skills Gained

After completing this course,you should be able to:

• Understand relation between Service Oriented Architecture SOA,
• Enterprise Service Bus ESB and Message Broker
• Understand features and usage of Message Broker
• Work with the Message Broker Toolkit
• Define and test message flows for routing and data transformation
• Understand the function of most popular processing nodes
• Write basic ESQL routines for message manipulation
• Transform messages with maps and with Java
• Use problem determination aids to diagnose and solve development and runtime errors
• Understand supported transport protocols and use some of them in message flows
• Create and work with self-defining (XML),predefined and undefined data formats
• Understand how to provide and call Web Services from message flows
• Define,use and test simple message layouts in the Message Repository (MRM)
• Convert data to and from different codepages and numeric encodings
• Understand the Publish/Subscribe messaging model
• Understand how to extend broker functionality with user-written and out-of-the-shelf plug-ins

Course Outline

• Introduction to ESB
• Working with Message Broker Toolkit
• Problem determination and explicit error handling in MessageFlows
• Message Transformation with ESQL
• Modelling Messages (MRM Parser)
• Using Mappings and Databases in Message Flows
• Accounting and Statistics
• Publish/Subscribe basics
• Request-Reply scenarios and managing state
• Code administration:Versioning,re-use,environment-dependency
• Using Java to receive,transform or send messages
• Broker support for Web Services:SOAP,HTTP,WSDL,MIME)

Suggested Follow -on Course

Advanced courses:

• WebSphere Message Broker Writing effective ESQL
• MQ73 WebSphere Message Broker MRM Message Modelling
• WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker - Writing Effective ESQL (MQ721AGB)
• WebSphere BI Message Broker MRM Message Modelling (MQ731AGB)

WebSphere Message Broker v6 Application Programmer Workshop / MQ661A (MQ661AGB)