These documents provide an overview of the technologies and skills
involved in using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB).
WebSphere for newcomers
(Web site)
These pages provide an overview of the WebSphere product family,
and provide links to additional products and information.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM
(Web site)
These pages provide an overview of service-oriented architecture
(SOA) and resources from IBM to provide skills, software, and experience required
to achieve business flexibility by using service-oriented architectures. This
information prepares you to understand how WebSphere ESB enables deployment
of standards-based integration applications in a service-oriented architecture.
WebSphere Technical Exchange
(Web site)
The WebSphere Technical Exchange can help you learn how to use
the WebSphere software platform so that you can build a dynamic e-business
that provides the flexibility and scalability to meet the demands of an ever-changing
marketplace.
IBM WebSphere business integration
(Web site)
In order to implement Business Process Management solutions, tools
to model, assemble, deploy and manage processes are needed. Towards that end,
IBM offers a comprehensive suite of Process Integration solutions.
IBM developerWorks WebSphere Application Server zone
(Web site)
This site is a collection of resources for users of WebSphere Application
Server. It includes links to papers, education, downloads, and support.
Overview of WebSphere ESB
(Information center)
WebSphere ESB supports the integration of service-oriented, message-oriented
and event-driven technologies to provide standards-based, messaging infrastructure
to companies wanting a fast start to an Enterprise Service Bus. These information
center topics give a comprehensive overview of the product.
Properly installing and configuring the components that make up
WebSphere ESB is essential. Careful consideration of your environment prior
to installing will facilitate planning and help avoid potential problems
System requirements
(Web site)
The latest information on supported hardware and software prerequisites.
Installing WebSphere ESB
(Information center)
These information center topics assist you with installing WebSphere
ESB.
Managing the bus environment
(Information center)
These information center topics assist you in managing the bus
environment, for example, to start or stop a server, change the quality of
service provided to Service Component Architecture (SCA) modules, add extra
server capacity, or to adopt a more distributed bus environment.
Managing service applications
(Information center)
These information center topics assist you in managing service
applications. Service applications provide services, and have an associated
SCA module.
Managing Message Service clients and WebSphere Adapters
(Information center)
WebSphere ESB provides message service clients that enable non-Java
applications to connect to WebSphere ESB. WebSphere Adapters enable SCA modules
(with EIS imports or exports) to communicate with a variety of external Enterprise
Information Systems using the consistent SCA programming model.
These documents provide information on how to optimally use development
and deployment tools.
WebSphere Integration Developer Information Center
(Information center)
The information center contains all the documentation for WebSphere
Integration Developer, the development environment for WebSphere ESB.
Developing service applications
(Information center)
These information center topics show how you can develop service
applications that, when deployed onto WebSphere ESB, enable message-based
communication between services and can operate on and manipulate messages
in flight between interaction endpoints.
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM
(Web site)
These pages provide an overview of service-oriented architecture
(SOA) and resources from IBM to provide skills, software, and experience required
to achieve business flexibility by using service-oriented architectures. This
information prepares you to understand how WebSphere ESB enables deployment
of standards-based integration applications in a service-oriented architecture.
WebSphere ESB security is based on the WebSphere Application Server
Network Deployment, version 6.0.2, security. These documents provide information
on security capabilities to be used with WebSphere ESB.
Securing the WebSphere ESB
(Information center)
These information center topics assist you in setting up security
for WebSphere ESB.
WebSphere Application Server V6 Security Handbook
(Redbook, pdf)
This book provides IT architects, IT specialists, consultants,
and users in various other roles with information to design, develop, and
deploy secure e-business applications using WebSphere Application Server,
version 6.
Depending on the offering of WebSphere ESB that you are using,
there could be a number of different components installed. When a problem
occurs, you must determine the scope of the problem and which components are
involved. To help you do this, the resources in this section provide information
on troubleshooting problems with WebSphere ESB and its components.
Troubleshooting
(Information center)
These WebSphere ESB information center topics lead you to resources
and techniques to help you identify and respond to problems.
