 | | IBM WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), V6.1, supports the following key capabilities and benefits: | | | | A platform-based ESB | Improve flexibility through the adoption of service oriented interfaces: - Support for a variety of messaging protocols including any JMS provider, WebSphere MQ, TCP/IP, SSL, HTTP(S), and multicast for optimum flexibility and improved asset reuse
- Broad range of interaction models (request/reply, point-to-point, publish/subscribe and multicast) to help meet your requirements
- Advanced Web services support to incorporate leading edge capabilities including SOAP/HTTP, SOAP/JMS, WSDL, Web Services Gateway. Supporting WS-* Standards including WS-Security, WS-Atomic Transactions and includes a UDDI Registry that can be used to publish and manage service end point metadata
- Comprehensive clients package to extend your environment.
- First class support for hundreds of ISV solutions with extensive WebSphere Adapter support, including JCA-based adapters
- Time and development savings costs by utilizing pre-built mediations
- Dynamically re-configure to meet changing business processing loads:
- Support for WSDL/XSD for expanded interoperability across a broader range of industry standard schema
| | Ease of use and business flexiblity | - Installation Factory enhancements for defining and building installations at a specific fix level, adding additional files to the installation and leaving out features that are not required
- Eclipse-based profile management tool consistent for all WebSphere platform
- Enhanced configuration management for deployment
- Support for pattern-based configurations, improving productivity for administrators configuring WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment clusters and all required resources for WebSphere ESB deployment environments
- WebSphere Integration Developer providing an integrated, interactive and visual development environment for rapid development of integration logic that requires minimal knowledge of Java or J2EE
| | Integration with connectivity and transformation capabilities | - Enables integration with any third-party JMS 1.1 Application Server Facilities (ASF) compliant messaging provider and automatic setup of WebSphere Application Server generic JMS resources
- New support for generic HTTP interactins with modern RESTful service clients and legacy web services
- New WebSphere Transform Extender integration delivering universal transformation for complex data formats and industry standards
- Provides custom data samples with sample scenarios for Export/Import and several formats
- Delivers Web Services Notification support for publish-and-subscribe Web services
- Includes enhancements to Business Fault support, enabling differentiation between business and runtime exceptions
- Delivers enhanced support for Web Services Description Language (WSDL) XML Schema Definition (XSD), enabling the use of many industry-standard XML schemas
- Delivers a Business Object Instance Validator with implicit interface-qualifier-based validation and explicit, programmatic validation
- WS-Notification support for publish-and-subscribe web services
| | Seamless integration with the WebSphere platform and currency | - WebSphere Application Server V6.1 allows WebSphere ESB to leverage WebSphere Application Server for other solutions, in addition to inheriting the new features and benefits that were introduced in WebSphere Application Server V6.1.
- Enhanced WebSphere Application Server XD support
- Support for i5/OS, enabling WebSphere ESB to run on System i to leverage native i5/OS facilities.
- Remote DB2 support for System i systems enables integration with i5/OS applications and leverages relational database management servers running on i5/OS.
- Support for 64-bit Windows and UNIX platforms.
- Support for Windows Vista as a design, development, and test platform (not for production) enables use of Microsoft's latest version of their desktop operating system.
- Extends your existing WebSphere MQ messaging foundation to integration new environments in an open, standards-based way
- Provides native SCA binding with WebSphere MQ for faster and easier integration
- Integrates tightly with IBM Tivoli® Access Manager, Tivoli Directiory, and Tivoli Composite Application for estending to a Federated ESB model.
| | Mediation Capabilities Supporting More Sophisticated interactons | - New Business Object Map primitive that makes it easy to embed a map inside a mediation flow and enhance transformation of Service objects in mediations
- New ServiceInvoke primitive that invokes a target service from within a request or response flow improving quality of service
- New fan out, fan in, and inline service invocation capabilities to that allow enhanced processing of single or composite messages by splitting and aggregation parts of the message and invoking multiple services
- Enhanced Custom Mediation primitive that allows for new terminals to be defined
- Enhancements to the Message Element Setter primitive
- System-wide common database support and schema qualifier on Message Logger primitive
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