WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition offers all the robust features of WebSphere Message Broker for virtual environments
Features and Benefits
WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition offers all the robust features of WebSphere Message Broker for virtual environments.
WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition also supports WebSphere Message Broker V7.0.0.1. WebSphere Message Broker V7.0.0.1 is the latest version of WebSphere Message Broker incorporating significant enhancements in function over that shipped with WebSphere Message Broker V7.0.
WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition supports four key areas:
Simplicity and productivity
Universal connectivity for SOA
Dynamic operational management
Platforms, environments, and performance
Simplicity and Productivity
Builds on the new pattern capability added in V7.0. Additional new patterns are provided, and most importantly a new feature has been added to enable user defined patterns to be created. IBM provided patterns are reusable solutions that encapsulate a tested approach in solving common architectural, deployment, and design tasks in a particular context. They can be used to generate customized solutions to a recurring problem in a more effective way. The supplied patterns aim to illustrate best-practices gleaned from thousands of implementations, should help users greatly reduce development cycles, and improve the quality of deployed assets, leveraging standard approaches to use of error handling and logging functions. The new user defined patterns function extends this pattern capability by enabling users to create their own patterns. This greatly facilitates reuse of commonly used or corporate mandated solutions. It also enables experience and assets to be captured as patterns to prevent rework and repetition when doing more complex tasks. This approach can greatly simplify implementation of standards throughout an organization, as well as boosting reuse.
Universal Connectivity for SOA
Effective connectivity across an enterprise has always been a key part of WebSphere Message Broker capabilities. WebSphere Message Broker V7.0.0.1 provides new nodes which deliver additional functions to extend Universal Connectivity for SOA. Areas enhanced include Web services, file processing, database Input, CICS request and CORBA request. Highlights of these enhancements are:
- Web services
SOAP nodes now support JMS and HTTP transports, include transport switching
Full support for WS-Security, WS-Addressing
Client query of Web service definitions at runtime
Improved scalability and performance of HTTP input nodes
- File processing -- New nodes to enable good integration with WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition (FTE) offer FTE input and output. This enables file processing either as an entire file or record by record
- Database Input
Message flows started from triggered and polled queries
Define processing steps within node properties, used with Rational Application Developer tools
Operational control including resource statistics for all supported databases
- CICS request
Message flows can call CICS programs and handle responses
High performance, synchronous, multiplatform access to CICS
- CORBA request
Access CORBA application from non-CORBA environments
Importer to automatically create message definition and message flow skeleton
Interoperable with an wide range of industry ORBs
Dynamic operational management
WebSphere Message Broker has enhanced security processing with a PEP node for authentication, authorization, and identity mapping. The PEP node can be placed anywhere in the message flow, increasing the flexibility of message flow design. Other enhancements include support for Tivoli Access Manager as a Security Policy Decision Point (PDP), as well as support for other WS_Trust PDPs.
Platforms, Environments and Performance
Continuing to enhance the platforms, environments and performance, WebSphere Message Broker is now fully integrated with Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit. A major V7 enhancement was removing the need for a database for operational reasons, but using databases for user data continues to be enhanced with support for solidDB, SQL Server z/Linux, and DB2 9.7. Additionally, JDBC database connections can be pooled to help with high volume, multithreaded flow scenarios.
Additional enhancements to reflect customer requests include:
Samples for retail supporting the ACE V7 format
Samples for Healthcare supporting HL7 V2.5 and V2.5.1
Improvements for connecting to SAP and IMS
