Product Description
Introductory Guide to WebSphere Business Integration from IBM
Using WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) technology, you can build an enterprise-wide Business Integration (BI) infrastructure that makes it easier to connect any business resources and functions, so you can adapt more quickly to the demands of customers and partners. Now there’s an introductory guide to creating standards-based process and data integration solutions with WBI.
WebSphere Business Integration Primer thoroughly explains Service Component Architecture (SCA), basic business processes, and complex long-running business flows, and guides you to choose the right process integration architecture for your requirements. Next, it introduces the key components of a WBI solution and shows how to make them work together rapidly and efficiently. This book will help developers, technical professionals, or managers understand today’s key BI issues and technologies, and streamline business processes by combining BI with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Coverage includes
- Linking BI, business process management (BPM), and SOA
- BI scenarios, architecture, patterns, and the IBM Business Object Framework
- Business orchestration utilizing WS-BPEL and other industry standards
- BI development with WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and the SCA programming model
- WebSphere Process Server (WPS): a runtime for service-oriented applications
- Defining business maps, rules, business state machines, and human tasks
- Managing BI services: security, auditing, and more
- Integrating third-party and legacy systems with WebSphere adapters
- Utilizing WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Business Monitor
- Using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB) to integrate services
WebSphere Business Integration Primer: Process Server, BPEL, SCA, and SOA
If you have the software buy this book .No free downloads available from IBM Site.Not useful to me.
Rating: 1 / 5
As an introduction for both Websphere Integration Developer and Process Server, and limited to 400 pages, generally good. I guess there’s always the links listed in each chapter (and free IBM RedBooks) online for more detail (which I found I needed to clarify some aspects – e.g. relationships).
Mainly, it becomes annoying that it doesn’t have a coherent sample app being built through the book – instead, moving between loosely related examples. Also, while there is some code available for download, it’s only final solutions for multi-chapter blocks (i.e. not start & end stages for each lab).
Perhaps staged lab code is easily fixable on the download site?
Rating: 3 / 5
I liked the book and would’ve given it 4 stars except that in trying to learn how to implement the concepts and examples I became frustrated. The authors did a good job with putting the chapters together and presenting the information. The book order example is intruguing but incomplete. No where is there reference or links to download samples. Trying to follow along with the choppy pieces they present is frustrating. IBM Press site is useless so…gentlemen, I must give you a mediocre rating for a technical book due to incomplete/missing examples. Shameful and sloppy!!
Rating: 3 / 5