WebSphere Application Server V6 planning and design WebSphere handbook series / Hernan Cunico ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunico, Hernan., Author.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

WebSphere handbook series.

IBM redbooks

WebSphere handbook series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

Software configuration management.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 568 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

White Plains, N.Y. : IBM, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Part 1 Getting started

Chapter 1. Introduction to WebSphere Application Server V6

1.1 Product overview

1.2 WebSphere product family

1.3 WebSphere for distributed platforms

1.3.1 Highlights and benefits

1.4 Packaging

1.4.1 Packaging for distributed platforms

WebSphere Application Server - Express

WebSphere Application Server V6

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6

1.5 Supported platforms and software

1.5.1 Operating systems

1.5.2 Web servers

1.5.3 Database servers

1.5.4 Directory servers

Chapter 2. Technology options

2.1 Web services

2.1.1 Static and dynamic Web services

2.1.2 JAX-RPC

JAX-RPC clients

JAX-RPC client programming styles

2.1.3 Service-oriented architecture

Requirements for an SOA

2.1.4 Security

J2EE Security beginnings

JACC

Deployment tools requirements

Application server container requirements

2.2 Flow languages

2.2.1 Flow Definition Language

2.2.2 Flow Definition Markup Language

2.2.3 Business Process Execution Language

Concepts and terms in BPEL4WS

BPEL4WS runtime

2.2.4 More information

2.3 J2EE Connector Architecture

2.4 Java Message Service

2.4.1 Overview of JMS

2.4.2 JMS and WebSphere MQ

JMS API history

JMS providers

JMS domains

JMS administered objects

JMS and JNDI

J2EE resource references and JMS

JMS connections

JMS sessions

JMS messages

Message selectors

JMS message producers

JMS message consumers

JMS exception handling

Application server facilities

JMS and J2EE

2.4.3 Advantages of using JMS

2.4.4 Disadvantages of using JMS

2.4.5 Summary

2.5 Business Rule Bean Framework

2.5.1 Planning.

2.5.2 Business Rule Beans

2.5.3 Why use Business Rule Beans

2.6 Information integration

2.6.1 Data consolidation

2.6.2 Distributed access

2.6.3 Choosing and combining data integration approaches

2.6.4 Data integration tools

Distributed access tools

Data consolidation tool

Replication tools

2.6.5 Summary on data integration

Chapter 3. What's new?

3.1 Features comparison between versions

3.2 Installation improvements

3.2.1 Redesigned launchpad

3.2.2 Granular installation

3.2.3 WebSphere profiles

3.2.4 Installing WebSphere Application Server products

3.2.5 Installing IBM HTTP Server

3.2.6 Installing application server clients

3.2.7 Improved directory structures

3.2.8 Reduced footprint

3.2.9 Removal and reinstallation

3.3 Administration

3.3.1 Application deployment

3.3.2 Incremental cell version upgrade

3.3.3 WebSphere configuration archive

3.3.4 Enhanced administrative infrastructure

Java Management Extensions

J2EE Management Specification

J2EE Connector Architecture

3.3.5 New administrative commands

3.3.6 Improved monitoring and performance tuning

3.3.7 System applications

3.3.8 Replication

3.3.9 High availability manager

3.3.10 Common networking services

3.3.11 Centralized Web server plug-in configuration

3.3.12 Node groups

3.3.13 Server templates

3.3.14 Resource providers

3.3.15 SOAP connector

3.3.16 WebSphere profiles

3.3.17 New administrative console look and feel

3.4 Default messaging provider

3.5 Clustering enhancements

3.5.1 Unified cluster framework

3.5.2 Data replication service enhancements

3.6 Security enhancements

3.6.1 JACC provider support

3.6.2 Java 2 security manager

3.6.3 J2EE Connector Architecture 1.5 support

3.6.4 Secure sockets layer channel framework

3.6.5 Web authentication.

3.6.6 Web services security

3.7 Deprecated features in this version

3.7.1 Programming model and container support features

3.7.2 Application services features

3.7.3 Security features

3.7.4 System administration features

3.7.5 Performance features

3.8 Application programming model

3.8.1 Programming Model Extensions

3.8.2 J2EE 1.4

Application deployment and packaging

Servlet and JSP changes

Web Services and XML support

Messaging

EJB 2.1

JMS

Independent software vendor enablement

JMX 1.2 / JSR-077 (J2EE Management)

JACC 1.0

Other J2EE enhancements

3.8.3 Web Services

Custom bindings

Support for generic SOAP elements

Multi-protocol JAX-RPC Support

Client caching

Web Services Gateway enhancements

3.8.4 Service Data Object

3.8.5 JavaServer Faces

Chapter 4. WebSphere Application Server architecture

4.1 Application server configurations

4.1.1 Stand-alone server configuration

4.1.2 Distributed server configuration

4.2 Cells, nodes, and servers

Application servers

Nodes, node groups, and node agents

Cells

4.3 Servers

4.3.1 Application server

4.3.2 Clusters

4.3.3 JMS servers (V5)

4.3.4 External servers

4.4 Containers

4.4.1 Web container

Web server plug-ins

4.4.2 EJB container

4.4.3 Client application container

4.5 Application server services

4.5.1 JCA services

4.5.2 Transaction service

4.5.3 Dynamic cache service

4.5.4 Message listener service

4.5.5 Object Request Broker service

4.5.6 Administrative service

4.5.7 Name service

4.5.8 PMI service

4.5.9 Security service

4.6 Data Replication Service

4.7 Virtual hosts

4.8 Session management

4.8.1 HTTP Session persistence

4.8.2 Stateful session EJB persistence

4.9 Web services

4.9.1 Enterprise services (JCA Web services).

4.9.2 Web service client

4.9.3 Web service provider

4.9.4 Enterprise Web Services

4.9.5 IBM WebSphere UDDI Registry

4.9.6 Web Services Gateway

Exposing internal Web services to the outside world

Externally hosted Web services

UDDI publication and lookup

4.10 Service integration bus

4.10.1 Application support

4.10.2 Service integration bus and messaging

Mediation

Clustering

Quality of Service

Message-driven beans

4.10.3 Web services and the integration bus

4.11 Security

4.11.1 User registry

4.11.2 Authentication

4.11.3 Authorization

4.11.4 Security components

Security server

Security collaborators

4.11.5 Security flows

Web browser communication

Administrative tasks

Java client communication

4.12 Resource providers

4.12.1 JDBC resources

Data sources

4.12.2 Mail providers

4.12.3 JCA resource adapters

4.12.4 URL providers

4.12.5 JMS providers

Default messaging provider

WebSphere MQ JMS provider

Generic JMS providers

V5 default JMS provider

4.12.6 Resource environment providers

4.13 Workload management

4.14 High availability

4.15 Administration

4.15.1 Administration tools

Administrative console

Commands

The wsadmin scripting client

4.15.2 Configuration repository

4.15.3 Centralized administration

Managed processes

Deployment manager

Node agent

Master configuration repository

4.16 The flow of an application

4.17 Developing and deploying applications

4.17.1 Application design

4.17.2 Application development

4.17.3 Application packaging

Enhanced EAR files

4.17.4 Application deployment

Application update

4.17.5 WebSphere Rapid Deployment

4.18 Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

4.18.1 J2EE platform roles

4.18.2 J2EE benefits.

4.18.3 Application components and their containers

4.18.4 Standard services

4.18.5 J2EE packaging

4.19 Technology support summary

Chapter 5. Integration with other products

5.1 Tivoli Access Manager

5.1.1 WebSphere Application Server V6 security

A brief overview of WebSphere security

5.1.2 New security features in WebSphere Application Server V6

Java 1.4 relevant changes

WebSphere Application Server - Express V6 and LTPA

5.1.3 Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Application Server V6

Repositories

Tivoli Access Manager Policy Server

Access Manager for WebSphere component

Further advantages of using Tivoli Access Manager

Future enhancements

Security, networking, and topology considerations

Legal considerations (privacy and data protection)

5.2 IBM Directory Server

5.2.1 The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

5.2.2 Supported LDAP servers for WebSphere Application Server V6

5.2.3 IBM Directory Server and WebSphere Application Server V6

5.3 WebSphere Business Integration

5.3.1 Service Oriented Architectures

5.3.2 Enterprise Service Bus

5.3.3 WebSphere Business Integration family of technologies

5.3.4 WebSphere Application Server and Business Integration

WebSphere Business Integration Foundation Server

Summary

5.4 MQ integration

5.4.1 Supported JMS messaging providers

Default Messaging Provider (default messaging provider)

5.4.2 Integration scenarios and possibilities

Client interoperability

Migration of V5 Embedded Messaging Provider to V6

WebSphere MQ interoperability

Coexistence of messaging engines and WebSphere MQ

MQ Link

Recommended usage scenarios

Chapter 6. Development tools.

6.1 Development and deployment tools.

Notes:

"March 2005."

"This edition applies WebSphere Application Server V6.0."

"Discusses end-to-end planning for WebSphere implementations. Provides best practices. Includes a complex topology walk-through."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

61348587