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

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 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.

WebSphere Adapters Version 6.0 provide a service-oriented approach to integration with Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). WebSphere Adapters are compliant with J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA 1.5). JCA is the J2EE standard for EIS connectivity. EIS Import and EIS Export provide SCA components with the uniform view of the services external to the module. This allows components to communicate with a variety of external EIS systems using the consistent SCA programming model. WebSphere Adapters are assembled in WebSphere Integration Developer from imported RAR files and then exported as an Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) file and deployed on WebSphere ESB. In this IBM Redpaper, we demonstrate a simple example of how to configure and use the WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files to create and read files for use in a service-oriented solution.

This IBM Redpaper is the second in a series of Redpapers called WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Development. This series discusses the development and deployment of WebSphere® Business Integration Adapters. In this second Redpaper, A Custom Adapter Development Example, we take the reader through the development life cycle of a custom adapter. We include sample code for you the download, as well as discuss our development, initial testing and deployment steps.

This IBM Redpaper is the first in a series of Redpapers dealing with the development and deployment of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters. In this first Redpaper, "An Introduction to the Basics," we describe the basics of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, the components that make up the adapters, and how to get started with developing and deploying a customer adapter.

This Redpaper provides key tuning recommendations for enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions based on WebSphere InterChange Server. This paper is not meant to be a comprehensive treatment of performance tuning, but instead a summary of experiences obtained through the use of the product. There are few easy answers to a performance problem, or what is perceived as a performance problem, in a complex system made up of multiple hardware and software components. For those who are either considering or are in the very early stages of implementing an WebSphere InterChange Server solution, this document should provide a useful performance information reference, serving as a supplemental starting point for setup, tuning, and configuration information. It provides a useful introduction to many of the issues affecting InterChange Server performance and can act as a guide for making rational first choices in terms of configuration and performance settings.

IBM Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can be used to increase the speed of developing and deploying Web applications. This Redpaper focuses on the Self-Service::Stand-Alone Single Channel application pattern for facilitating user access to business sites and the Self-Service::Directly Integrated Single Channel application pattern for including one or more point-to-point connections with back-end applications on the IBM eServer iSeries platform. Part 1 of this Redpaper guides you through the process of selecting an Application pattern and a Runtime pattern. Next, the iSeries platform-specific product mappings are identified based on the selected Runtime pattern. Part 2 teaches you by example how to design and build sample solutions using IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0 for iSeries with Web services, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connectors, and IBM CICS, and Java Message Service (JMS) and WebSphere MQ. Part 3 describes the installation process of the IBM Patterns for e-business Development Kit Lite (PDK Lite) application on the WebSphere Application Server, as well as loading PDK into WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries.