I am a developer; what tasks am I interested in?

New users:

Read the following introductory topics to the product, before you start application development:

• Where can I get an overview of IBM Integration Bus?

  Gain a high-level overview of IBM Integration Bus.

• Where can I find additional resources?

  Explore the community to find a variety of information and resources from IBM developers and others in the community. Ask questions and read answers from others about developing solutions with IBM Integration Bus.

Returning users:

Find out what new features are supported for application development, and what techniques and practices experienced IBM Developers have talked about:

• Where can I find what's new in Version 10.1?

  Find out what new features and functionality has been added to the product since your current version was released.

• Where can I read about what more experienced developers say?

  Read the IBM App Connect community blog, where you can find short articles, pointers, and views written by the IBM development, services, support and technical sales teams, based on their knowledge and experience.

• Where can I find additional resources?

  Explore the community to find a variety of information and resources from IBM Developers and others in the community. Ask questions and read answers from others about developing solutions with IBM Integration Bus.

Use the links in this section to help you to start developing your own message flows. Links are also included to help you to understand IBM Integration Bus concepts that might be useful when you develop your own message flows.

• What do I need to know to start developing applications?

  Find out about the IBM Integration Bus concepts you might want to know before developing your own message flows.

• How do I create and manage message flows?

  Find out how to design, create, and configure a message flow.

• How do I program message flows?

  Find out about the concepts and tasks associated with programming message flows.

• How do I design and develop a message model?

  Find out how to develop a message model if you need to define the structure of your messages.

• How do I deploy and test message flows?

  Find out how to deploy your message flows to an integration node and how to test them.

When you develop message flows, you might also be interested in the following questions:

• How can I troubleshoot problems?

  Find out how to debug message flows and troubleshoot problems.

• Where can I find out about the accessibility functions of IBM Integration Bus?

  Find out about accessibility features in IBM Integration Bus.

• How do I add documentation to the IBM Integration Toolkit?

  Find out how you can access help information about IBM Integration Bus remotely from the online product documentation, or by downloading the documentation and accessing it from a local source.