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Hello World: WebSphere Integration Developer

Many business solutions from one set of components

Jane Fung (jcyfung@ca.ibm.com), Staff Software Developer, IBM Toronto

Jane is a Staff Software Developer at IBM Canada Ltd. She is responsible for developing the Business Process Executable Language (BPEL) and Business Rules debugger in WebSphere Integration Developer. Previously, she was the team lead of the WebSphere Studio Technical Support team. Jane received a bachelor in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in year 2000. She has extensive publishing experience, including numerous developerWorks articles. Jane was the lead author of an IBM Press book, An Introduction to Rational Application Developer, A Guided Tour.

Summary: Welcome to the third tutorial in the "Hello, World" series, which provides high-level overviews of various IBM software products. This tutorial will give you a high-level introduction to WebSphere® Integration Developer. It includes three practical hands-on exercises in which you'll create a BPEL business process and a business rule group, and then integrate them.

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Date: 11 Jul 2006
Level: Introductory
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Before you start

About this series

This series is for novices who want high-level overviews of various IBM software products. The modules are designed to introduce the products, and draw your interest for further exploration. The exercises only cover the basic concepts, but are enough to get you started.

About this tutorial

This tutorial will provide an introduction to WebSphere Integration Developer. You'll learn more about the features and capabilities of this product by using it to complete three hands-on tasks. In the first, you'll create and deploy a simple business process; in the second, you'll create and deploy a business rule that contains several if-then rules; and in the third, you'll expand the rule you created in the second task with a new business process.

Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should understand the basic functions of WebSphere Integration Developer, and understand how to use it to create business rules and business processes.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is for application designers with at least a basic familiarity with the Eclipse development environment.

System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, you need to install IBM WebSphere Integration Developer v6.0.1.

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