WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

WebSphere ESB is a flexible connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services. It allows the development of an SOA. WebSphere ESB powers the SOA by reducing the complexity of integrating the applications and services. WebSphere ESB is ideal if you have other solutions on WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, or the BPM platform. You may achieve efficiencies in skills, cost, and time-to-value across middleware products by adding WebSphere ESB to your standards-based IT environment.

New features in WebSphere ESB V7.0

Accelerates productivity across user roles:

• Allows powerful development in WebSphere Integration Developer with pattern-based development, guided task flows, mapping enhancements, and simplification

• Simplifies system installation and cluster configuration

• Includes enhanced operational visibility with enhanced service monitoring and health and problem determination business space widgets

• Improves operational flexibility with enhanced module administration business space widgets and endpoint-based mediation policy support

Exploits and extends WebSphere Application Server V7:

Includes enhanced standards support, simplified system installation and administration, and enhanced WebSphere MQ V7 integration

Enables advanced ESB scenarios:

• Includes new Service Federation Management across WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and the ESB family to manage service visibility and reuse across the enterprise

• Enhances process integrity of service interactions with event sequencing and intelligent store-and-forward

Enhances support for open standards:

• Includes Java enhancements: Java EE 5, EJB 3.0, JPA, JDK 6 support, and enhanced Java integration

• Includes Web services enhancements: WS-Addressing, Attachments, Kerberos token profile, and WS-Policy support

• Interoperability with Open SCA, enhanced OSGi support, and enhanced XML fidelity

• Includes z/OS enhancements:

  
     - Improved integration of the WebSphere Customization Tool with the WebSphere
        Process Server for z/OS and WebSphere ESB for z/OS installation experience

  
     - Enhanced tool support to assist with the DB2 database creation process

  
     - Common Installer Framework that provides an integrated "look and feel" for all z/OS BPM
        products