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This IBM® Redpaper publication was produced by the IBM WebSphere® Process Server, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, IBM WebSphere Adapters, and IBM WebSphere Business Monitor performance teams in Austin, Texas; Boblingen, Germany; and Hursley, England. It provides performance tuning tips and best practices based on the performance team's experience for the following products: -- WebSphere Process Server 6.1.0 -- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) 6.1.0 -- WebSphere Adapters 6.1.0 -- WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1.0 These products represent an integrated development and runtime environment that is based on a key set of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) technologies, including Service Component Architecture (SCA), Service Data Object (SDO), and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) for Web Services. These technologies in turn build upon the core capabilities of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1, including the Java™ Connector Architecture (JCA) V1.5 on which WebSphere Adapters V6.1.0 are based. This paper discusses the performance implications of the supporting runtime environment, and relates a subset of best practices as well as tuning and configuration parameters for the different software technologies that are involved. The audience for this paper includes a wide variety of groups such as customers, services, technical marketing, and development. Note that this paper is not as comprehensive as a tuning, sizing, or capacity planning guide

When energy prices spike, everyone (consumers and businesses) is impacted. IBM® and others in the computer industry have been making great progress with technology to optimize systems and reduce power consumption. With a trend of increasing energy costs and greater environmental awareness, many organizations are looking to greener, more energy efficient solutions. Businesses are actively seeking solutions to reduce energy consumption to save money and to promote green initiatives such as empowering employees to manage their carbon footprint. IBM offers Smart SOA approaches for green solutions that can be applied to almost any enterprise. This IBM Redguide™ publication focuses on how the fictional organization JKHL Enterprises (JKHLE) uses service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions to reduce energy consumption and help drive green initiatives. JKHLE has two existing data centers, one that uses traditional power sources (such as coal, oil, and natural gas) and one that uses renewable energy sources (such as wind turbine generation farms). JKHLE currently divides its work evenly between the two data centers, but has committed to being a better corporate citizen and to reusing renewable energy whenever possible. This document describes how JKHLE uses IBM Smart SOA solutions to achieve the following goals: Understand the energy usage and carbon footprint of each data center. Dynamically route additional work to the green data center when feasible. Schedule high energy consuming tasks at non-peak energy time

Information Technology (IT) accounts for 2% of anthropological carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. Astoundingly, this amount is roughly equivalent to the outputs of the entire aviation industry. Over the next four years, IT energy usage is expected to double (according to "Green IT: A New Industry Shockwave," Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 2007). In many data centers today, up to 50 cents is spent on energy for every dollar of hardware. With a trend of increasing energy costs and greater environmental awareness, many organizations are looking to greener, more energy efficient solutions. IBM offers Smart SOA approaches for green solutions that can be applied to almost any enterprise. This IBM Redpaper publication describes how a fictional company, JKHL Enterprises (JKHLE), adopts IBM Smart SOA solutions to help drive green initiatives and reduce energy costs. Get hands-on experience at no cost with IBM's SOA middleware portfolio in a Cloud environment through the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/soasandbox/">IBM SOA Sandbox</a>.

WebSphere® Integration Developer can be used to compose components into mediation modules. These can then be deployed onto WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus or WebSphere Process Server. When wiring the components together using the assembly editor, it is possible to specify qualifiers to provide extended qualities of service to the components, and to the clients using the mediations. The qualifiers available can be used to influence the transaction management, security and asynchronous invocation characteris

Enterprise IT environments continue to grow in complexity, through natural expansion or mergers and acquisitions. As the pace of business demand accelerates, IT environments look more for opportunities to flexibly reuse existing applications, services, and data. With the IBM® connectivity portfolio of products, these IT environments can discover and reuse services, expose and use application services, and route and transform messages. The set of capabilities (in the IBM connectivity portfolio) supports client requests for a broad service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure that addresses the need to bridge and streamline communication in heterogeneous IT environments. In this IBM Redpaper publication, we provide an overview of the IBM connectivity portfolio to market watchers who have a keen interest in understanding the most current connectivity technology releases, and how IBM is taking them to the next level. Specifically, we review the key benefits and features of the following products: IBM WebSphere® MQ IBM WebSphere Message Broker IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus IBM WebSphere DataPower® IBM WebSphere Adapters IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

This paper is one in a series of service-oriented architecture (SOA) papers that feature a case study involving a fictitious company called JKHL Enterprises (JKHLE). The focus of the case study in this paper is the challenges and solutions associated with the connectivity of services for opening new accounts. This paper describes how to apply the realization patterns of the Service Connectivity SOA Scenario to solve the business and IT challenges as they relate to the case study. The fictitious scenario used in this paper is described in: <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4376.html">Case Study: SOA Account Open Project Overview</a> Read the other case studies in this series: <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4375.html">Case Study: Interaction and Collaboration Services SOA Scenario</a> <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4383.html">Case Study: Business Process Management SOA Scenario</a> <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4377.html">Case Study: Service Creation SOA Scenario</a> <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4378.html">Case Study: SOA Security and Management Scenario</a> <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4379.html">Case Study: SOA Design Scenario</a> <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4381.html">Case Study: Process SOA Scenario</a> <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4382.html">Case Study:

This IBM Redpaper publication was produced by the IBM WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Adapters, and WebSphere Business Monitor performance teams in Austin, Texas; Böblingen, Germany; and Hursley, England. It provides performance tuning tips and best practices based on the performance teams' experience for WebSphere Process Server 6.0.2, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) 6.0.2, WebSphere Adapters 6.0.2, and WebSphere Business Monitor 6.0.2. If you are either considering or are in the early stages of implementing a solution that incorporates these products, this document should prove to be a useful reference. It describes best practices during application development and deployment and provides a starting point for setup, tuning, and configuration information. It contains a useful introduction to many of the issues that affect these products' performance and can act as a guide for making rational first choices in terms of configuration and performance settings. Finally, all of these products build upon the capabilities of the WebSphere Application Server infrastructure. Therefore, solutions that are based on these products will also benefit from existing tuning, configuration, and best practices information for WebSphere Application Server documented in " Related publications" on page 41. You are encouraged to use the information in this paper in conjunction with these references.