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• Enforcing Service Level Agreements using WebSphere DataPower, Part 1: Applying the SLA Control File pattern

  This first of a 2-part article series shows how common policies are governed, enforced, and monitored using IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50 SOA Appliance, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA.

• Comment lines: The new generation of DataPower

  A brief review of the latest innovative WebSphere DataPower hardware, including edge, B2B, services gateway, and Cast Iron appliances.

• Integrating the DataPower XC10 and XI50 Appliances

  This article shows you how easy it is to integrate the DataPower XC10 and XI50 Appliances by using the XC10 as a side cache to reduce response times in the XI50, as well as how to create a multi-protocol gateway service in the DataPower XI50, and how to configure and monitor a data grid in the DataPower XC10.

• Bridging Web 2.0 and SOA using DataPower Appliances

  Learn how WebSphere DataPower is uniquely positioned to bridge client requests to traditional Web service back-end systems.

• Processing B2B messages with e-mail attachments using the DataPower XB60

  Business partners often use e-mail to batch and send multiple B2B MIME attachments in a single message, but B2B gateways cannot consume these types of messages. This article shows you how to use the DataPower XB60 to chain multiple XB60 gateway services and support this B2B customer trading scenario

• Enhance your ESB with the REST Gateway feature in the DataPower XC10

  The REST Gateway feature brings access to data grids to a whole new range of client types.

• Bigger, better, faster elastic caching with the DataPower XC10

  The DataPower XC10 V2 is a firmware and hardware upgrade that enhances the performance, quality, serviceability, and scalability of your elastic caching tier.

• FAQs: The new DataPower XC10 elastic caching solution

  The new XC10 combines the bullet-proof DataPower hardware platform with IBM's state-of-the-art distributed caching. Here are the top 10 XC10 questions from customers.

• Managing multiple DataPower Appliances with WebSphere Appliance Management Toolkit

  In this two-part article series, Part 1 shows you how the WebSphere Appliance Management Toolkit greatly simplifies the task of managing the configuration of heterogeneous collections of DataPower Appliances, while Part 2 shows you how to use Jython to perform management tasks both interactively and through scripting.

• Trading B2B documents using OpenAS2 with a DataPower XB60 B2B Appliance

  AS2 is the standard protocol for trading B2B messages and OpenAS2 is an open-source project that implements AS2 in Java. This article shows you how to use OpenAS2 with the DataPower XB60 to create a test harness and trade B2B documents.

• Providing a scalable SOA infrastructure with the DataPower XC10 and XI50

  Integrating the authentication capabilities of the XI50 with the extensible and scalable high-speed caching of the XC10 provides faster lookup of cached data and reduced processing at back-end tiers, opening up new ways to economize on infrastructure costs.

• Processing XML schemas with XSLT for DataPower Appliances

  XML Schemas are a fundamental part of any XML-based SOA. Schemas can act as service contracts between service providers and service consumers, providing machine-enforceable sets of rules that describe the interface. This article shows you how to process multiple XSD documents using XSLT 1.0 stylesheets for your DataPower Appliances.

• Improve security by processing attachments with DataPower Appliances

  Since they reside in the security DMZ, DataPower Appliances can offload Web service attachment processing and check for security threats without compromising performance. If a threat is found, the attachment can be quarantined and the rest of the message processed.

• Secure backup-restore for DataPower Appliances

  Secure backup-restore lets you back up a DataPower device configuration and then restore it to a compatible device, thus providing disaster recovery, workarounds for device problems, and the ability to copy an effective configuration from one device to many others.

• Comment lines by Bill Hines: Rise of the DataPower Blade

  There has been lots of DataPower news lately, but the announcement of the DataPower XI50B -- built on the blade form factor -- really shakes things up.

• Best practices for monitoring availability and performance of DataPower Appliances

  DataPower Appliances provide a wealth of information on system status, ranging from memory, file system, and interface utilization, to throughput, connection status, and transaction rates. This article shows you how to use this information to optimize the availability and performance of your DataPower Appliances.

• Implementing a Web 2.0 RESTful facade with JSON using DataPower Appliances

  Build a JSON-enabled RESTful service on a DataPower Appliance, bridging it to a SOAPful back-end Web service. Sample REST/JSON code is included to demonstrate best practices.

• Offload WebSphere Web services security to DataPower (five-part article series)

  DataPower Appliances are capable of firewall and security functions at very high speeds. This five-part article series shows you how to integrate DataPower with WebSphere Application Server to create a highly secure, high-performance enterprise server environment.