WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) provides flexible service mediation and hosting for integrating applications and data as services, designed to enable the development of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Built on top of WebSphere Application Server for an integrated SOA platform, WebSphere ESB helps you create services from existing assets and connect service providers with service consumers to create new business systems. It can connect virtually any business application, and supports common connectivity patterns such as simple proxy, service gateway, service translation and service selection as well as mediation policies for dynamic SOA solutions. It integrates well with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, supporting a common business space environment for web-based widgets to SOA users. WebSphere ESB brings consistency to point-to-point connectivity diversity, reducing IT complexity while improving business agility. You can focus on your core business, rather than on your IT.

WebSphere ESB is ideal if you have other solutions on WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce, or the BPM platform. You may achieve efficiencies in skills, cost, and time-to-value across middleware products by adding WebSphere ESB to your Java-based IT environment, especially in the areas of common cell administration, operation, tuning, clustering, high-availability configurations. Built as a service bus that extends the service integration technologies of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere ESB is packaged both as part of IBM Business Process Manager and as a stand-alone product. It allows you to run mediation modules, which are Java EE applications.

IBM WebSphere ESB:

• Brings consistency to point-to-point connectivity

• Provides smart connectivity on internet-standard application infrastructure, to connect any application or data

• Supports a broad range of native bindings and adapters for service-oriented integration, incl. web services, MQ and JMS messaging, HTTP, EJB, databases, files. file transfer, email, Lotus Domino, System i (RPG programs), CICS, IMS, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards.

• Integrates seamlessly with the industry-leading WebSphere software platform for streamlined IT operations

• Extends easily to IBM Business Process Manager Advanced for service orchestration and BPM

• Tightly integrates with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for SOA solutions

• Leverages declarative IBM Integration Designer for visual programming and testing

• Provides an integrated solution for both service mediation and service hosting
  WebSphere ESB is easy to use from both a tools and a run-time perspective. IBM Integration Designer, the development tool of choice for WebSphere ESB, delivers an integrated, interactive, and visual development experience that requires minimal programming skills. You can get up and running quickly with a compelling out-of-the-box experience that is supported by easy-to-understand samples and comprehensive documentation.

New features in IBM WebSphere ESB V7.5

• Enhanced developer productivity:
  • Simplified mediation flow format eases team-based development and increases developer choice
  • Consistent and simplified failure handling through operation level error flows
  • Development Guide provides cohesive explanation of programming model and guides choice of product features
  • Enhanced service invocation mediation primitive simplifies message augmentation scenarios
  • Improved catch-all fault processing for mediation flows
• Enhanced integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository:
  • Endpoint resolution based on a service level agreement established in WSRR with the Governance Enablement Profile
  • Policy resolution support extended to cover all SCA binding types and manual endpoints configured in WSRR
  • Common Business Space user interface for WebSphere ESB and WSRR
• Enhanced transformation standards support: More powerful transformations through support for XSLT 2.0
• Enhanced performance:
  • Increased responsiveness of initial invocations through pre-compilation of XSL transformations and XPath queries
  • Improved handling of large objects provided by the business object lazy parsing mode
• Enhanced serviceability: Improved mediation flow diagnostics captured on first occurrence of failures
• Platform support:
  • New operation system support for AIX 7.1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (on System z and System x)
  • New database support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, DB2 z/OS 10

• 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

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

• 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

• 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
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