WA1588 WebSphere Product Suite Overview Training and Courseware Course Outline

1. WebSphere and Rational Product Line Overview

  • Overview
  • Categories of Interest in WebSphere Product Line
  • Application and Transaction Infrastructure
  • Application Servers
  • WebSphere Application Server
  • Application Integration
  • Portals
  • Categories of Interest in Rational Product Line
  • Software Analysis and Design
  • Software Development
  • Summary
  • References
 

2. Introduction to RSA

  • Overview
  • Basic Purpose of the Tool
  • Getting Online Help
  • Other Sources of Information
  • Workspace
  • Capabilities
  • Perspective, Views and Editors
  • Basic Operations with RSA Views and Perspectives
  • Modeling Perspective
  • Debug Perspective
  • Project Explorer View
  • Outline View
  • Properties View
  • Task and Problems View
  • Model Preferences
  • Importing and Exporting Files
  • Searching
  • Tutorials and Samples
  • Summary
 

3. Developing Applications Based on a Model

  • Overview
  • Building Applications
  • Java Application
  • Java Web Application
  • EJB Application
  • J2EE Architecture
  • Developing a Java Application
  • Basic Operations
  • Debugging
  • Developing a Web Application
  • Exploring a Web Application
  • Running a Web Application
  • Developing an EJB Application
  • Running an EJB Application
  • Web Services
  • Creating a Web Service from the Top Down
  • Creating a Web Service from the Bottom Up
  • Deploying a Web Service
  • Testing a Web Service
  • Summary
 

4. WebSphere V6.1 Support for Web Services

  • Overview
  • Introduction
  • Web Service Runtimes
  • Service in a Web Container
  • Example Java Class
  • Generated Artifacts
  • How Does the Wizard Generate All That?
  • Web Services Deployment Descriptor
  • Example: webservices.xml
  • webservices.xml Editor
  • The Generated WSDL File
  • The WSDL Editor
  • Service in an EJB Container
  • Generated Artifacts
  • Web Services Deployment Descriptor
  • Client Development
  • Generated Artifacts
  • The Service Reference
  • The Proxy Class
  • Summary
 

5. Introduction to the WebSphere Portal Server

  • Topics
  • What is a Portal
  • An Example of A WebSphere Portal Site
  • Benefits of Portal Sites
  • General Portal Architecture
  • The Major Components of Horizontal Portals
  • The Major Components of Horizontal Portals cont
  • WebSphere Portal Goals
  • WebSphere Portal Components
  • WebSphere Portal Components cont
  • WebSphere Portal Components cont
  • WebSphere Portal Accessibility
  • WebSphere Portal Packaging
  • WebSphere Portal Requirements
  • A Typical Network Architecture for WebSphere Portal
  • WebSphere Portal Server
  • WebSphere Portal Server Architecture
  • Portal Container
  • Portal Engine Architecture
  • Page Aggregation Modules
  • Portlet
  • WebSphere Portal Built-in Portlets
  • Portlet Application
  • Portlet Mode and State
  • WebSphere Portlet Content Publishing (WPCP)
  • Portal Document Manager (PDM)
  • Search Engine
  • WebSphere Portal Information
  • Summary
 

6. WebSphere Architecture

  • Objectives
  • WebSphere Platform
  • Base Edition
  • Base Edition
  • Other WAS Editions
  • IBM HTTP Server
  • WebSphere Profiles
  • Creating Profiles
  • Benefits of Profiles
  • Product Files Directories
  • Profile Directories
  • Cell/Node/Server
  • Config Directory
  • Web Server Integration
  • Benefit of a Web Server
  • IBM HTTP Server Installation
  • Web Server Plug-in
  • Web Servers in WebSphere
  • Mapping Applications to Web Servers
  • Plug-in Configuration
  • Workload Management (WLM) Basics
  • Role of Network Deployment Software
  • Similarities With Base Edition
  • Differences With Base Edition
  • Network Deployment Cell
  • Deployment Manager and Node Agents
  • Configuration File Synchronization
  • Network Deployment Profiles
  • Federating Nodes
  • Federating an Application Server Profile
  • Federating a Custom Profile
  • Adding Nodes
  • Cluster
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Horizontal Scaling
  • "Mixed" Scaling
  • Reference
 

7. Administration Console and Application Deployment

  • Objectives
  • Single Server Admin Structure
  • Administration Clients
  • Logging In
  • Console Intro
  • Console Overview
  • Navigation Tree
  • Workspace Area
  • Help Area
  • Save Configuration
  • Save Conflicts
  • Common Configuration
  • Scope
  • Application Installation
  • Installation Steps
  • Finishing Up
  • Start Application
  • Applications on File System
  • Admin Console & Application Deployment Questions
  • Admin Console & Application Deployment Answers
  • Reference