WebSphere Message Broker v6 New Features Workshop

Course Overview

This course gives delegates the information to understand what new nodes and features are available in WebSphere Message Broker

V6. The attendees will have significant hands-on labs that will reinforce lectures. WBI Message Broker V6.0 is a very complex product. It is expected that students will continue working with and learning the product on their own after completing the course.

Audience

The audience will be comprised of integration specialists, system administrators, and senior level application developers from both customer

and business partner organizations. It is not suitable for a novice to attend this course.

Skills Gained

• After completing this course, you should be able to:
• Understand the supported environments
• Learn about the enhancements to the Message Broker Information
• Work with the new Default Configuration wizard.
• Understand the relationship between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA),Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Message Broker
• Understand the overall toolkit improvements in the areas of; Rational, ESQL and Mapping.
• Understand the Flow Debugger software requirements and improvements.
• Understand what XPath is, and its benefits.
• Understand how to implement and use the new runtime versioning feature.
• Use the Configuration Manager Proxy to deploy and remove deployed message flows.
• Use the mqsilist commands to investigate what is deployed on the broker.
• Use the new command line utilities for creating execution groups, deploying message flows and creating bar files.
• • Use the new MQGET node to store state information in a database and get a message from a
  • queue.
• Define and use in a message flow the new Timer nodes to cause a message flow to start at periodic intervals.
• Understand the enhancements of the HTTP nodes.
• Understand and use the enhanced Web Services support for modeling and working with SOAP messages and MIME attachments.
• Create a message set that generates a WSDL.
• Configure the new Java Compute node and write basic Java to understand the Filter Message class template.
• Configure WMQ as the JMS provider and use the JMS nodes to convert a message before putting it to a JMS destination.
• Understand the improvements of the XSLT and Aggregation nodes.

Prerequisites

There are several major prerequisite skills required for this class.

You should have in-depth working knowledge of WebSphere MQ administration and application programming. You should attend prior to this class WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5

Basic Training.

The following additional skills will be very helpful:

• DB2 administration
• Microsoft Windows XP Administration skills
• Java
• SQL
• XML
• XPath

Course Outline

• WebSphere Message Broker release overview
• Information center
• SOA/ESB positioning
• Broker tooling
• Configuration and administration
• New nodes: JMS, Timer, MQGET, and HTTP enhancements
• Message modeling
• ESQL enhancements
• Other enhancements
• Java Compute node
• XSLT and Aggregation node improvements

WebSphere Message Broker v6 New Features Workshop / MQ6U1A (MQ6U1AGB)