WA1570 WebSphere ESB v6.0 Administration Training and Courseware Course Outline (Coming Soon)

1. Overview of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

  • Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture
  • Introduction to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB)
  • Introduction to Service Component Architecture (SCA)
  • Various SCA artifacts deployed in the server
  • SCA Packaging Model
  • WESB information references
 

2. Installation of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

  • Supported software and hardware
  • Installation topology
  • Installation process
  • Installation Verification
  • Troubleshooting installation
  • Applying fix packs
  • Migrate database to DB2 or Oracle
  • Coexisting with other WebSphere products
 

3. Overview of Web Services

  • A Conceptual Look at Services
  • What is a Web Service?
  • Binding via SOAP
  • Interface via WSDL
  • UDDI Overview
  • WS-I Overview
 

4. Basic Administration

  • Starting and stopping the server
  • Launching the admin console
  • Administration Console interface
  • Review component wiring with WebSphere Integration Developer (WID)
  • Build the EAR file with WID
  • Installing and administering enterprise applications
  • Using scripts to automate tasks
 

5. Problem Determination

  • Log and trace
  • Recommended trace levels
  • Viewing SOAP messages with the TCP/IP Monitor
  • Validating XML
 

6. Administering Adapters

  • Overview of adapters
  • Installing an application with adapters embedded in it
  • Administering adapters using admin console
  • Connection factories
 

7. SCA Import and Export Binding

  • What to import and export
  • Configuring import binding
  • Configuring export binding
  • Export binding and event sequencing
 

8. Mediation

  • Overview of Mediation
  • Mediation modules
  • Creating a mediation module with WID
  • Transformation options
  • Exporting a mediation module
  • Installing a mediation module
  • Managing mediation modules
  • Changing mediation bindings
 

9. Integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR)

  • Interaction between WESB and WSRR
  • Configuring link to WSRR
  • Using service lookup primitive in business processes and mediations
  • Best practice for WSRR usage
 

10. Administering the Service Integration Bus

  • Overview of the Service Integration Bus (SIB)
  • How WESB uses the SIB
  • Choice of SIB topology
  • Creating the topology
 

11. Security

  • Securing the runtime environment
  • User registry options
  • Securing applications
  • Deploying secure applications
  • Web service security
  • Authentication aliases
  • Adapter security
  • Default security of installed components
 

12. Performance Tuning WESB

  • Performance Tuning basics
  • Tuning Checklist for WESB
 

13. End to End Monitoring with Common Event Infrastructure

  • Introduction to Common Event Infrastructure (CEI)
  • Correlating application events with CEI
  • Using CEI APIs in various applications
  • Viewing monitored events
 

14. Clustering WESB

  • Key topologies for WESB clustering
  • Clustering the messaging infrastructure
  • Clustering the relational databases
  • Creating the basic WESB cluster
  • More complex topologies
 
Notice: This course is still under development and the outline is subject to revisions.