WebSphere business integration adapters : an adapter development and WebSphere business integration solution / Lee Gavin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gavin, Lee., Author.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

WebSphere.

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

Client/server computing.

Business--Data processing.

Business.

Physical Description:

xx, 904 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Research Triangle Park, N.C. : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

WebSphere® Business Integration is the IBM® business integration solution for process integration, workforce management, and enterprise application connectivity. WebSphere Business Integration helps you to create and deploy new business processes, synchronize business information in multiple business applications on diverse platforms, and transform message formats en-route between applications. This IBM Redbooks publication takes you through the full life cycle of an adapter development project, from design considerations, building, and testing through deployment and implementation on multiple broker types (using both an out-of-the-box technology adapter and the custom adapter for our development project). For this book, we designed a scenario that mirrors many of the issues that real-life integration projects can face. The scenario starts by integrating custom enterprise applications. It then integrates those applications into the business-to-business world by extending the infrastructure. Finally, it adds a human interaction component which determines whether to take the internal route or external route (via trading partners) to application integration. Using many of the components within the WebSphere Business Integration family of products, this book includes a range of integration options that are available to implement this scenario. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Part 1 Adapter development: The theory

Chapter 1. Adapter development

1.1 Technical assessment

1.2 Getting started with the development

1.2.1 Understanding the application

1.2.2 Identifying the directionality of the connector

1.2.3 Identifying the application-specific business objects

1.2.4 Investigating the application data interaction interface

1.2.5 Investigating the event management and notification mechanism

1.2.6 Investigating communication across operating systems

1.3 Getting started with the development project

Chapter 2. Business objects

2.1 Overview of business objects

2.2 Types of business objects

2.2.1 Application-specific business object

2.2.2 Generic business object

2.3 Business object design

2.3.1 Flat business object

2.3.2 Hierarchical business object

2.3.3 Business object structure

2.3.4 Wrapper business objects

2.4 Application-specific information and metadata

2.5 Metadata and metaobjects

Chapter 3. Object Discovery Agents

3.1 Overview of ODA

3.2 Design considerations

3.3 Setting up the development environment

3.4 Object Discovery Agent process flows

3.4.1 Obtaining ODA configuration properties

3.4.2 Selecting and confirming source data

3.4.3 Generating content

3.4.4 Saving content

3.5 Object Discovery Agent data sources

Chapter 4. Agent initialization and termination

4.1 Connector startup

4.1.1 WebSphere InterChange Server

4.1.2 Business Integration Message Broker or Application Server

4.2 Connector initialization

4.2.1 Establishing a connection

4.2.2 Checking the connector version

4.2.3 Recovering In-Progress events

4.3 Obtaining the business object handler.

4.4 Connector termination

4.5 Extending the connector base class

Chapter 5. Data handlers and name handlers

5.1 Design decisions for data handlers

5.1.1 Determining whether the data is metadata-driven

5.2 The development process

5.3 Creating the custom data handler

5.4 Converting data

5.5 Name handler development overview

5.6 Implementing a name handler

5.7 Name handler requirements

5.8 Reuse

5.9 Configuration requirements

Chapter 6. Business object handlers

6.1 Overview of request processing

6.2 Metadata

6.2.1 Metadata-driven connectors

6.2.2 Partially metadata-driven connectors

6.2.3 Connectors that do not use metadata

6.3 One generic business object handler for all business objects

6.4 Multiple business object handlers

6.5 Designing the doVerbFor() method

6.5.1 Performing the verb action

6.5.2 Handling the Create verb

6.5.3 Handling the Retrieve verb

6.5.4 Handling the RetrieveByContent verb

6.6 Handling the Update verb

6.6.1 Handling the Delete verb

6.7 Business object processing and cardinality

6.7.1 Processing flat business objects

6.7.2 Processing hierarchical business objects

6.8 Custom business object handlers

6.8.1 Creating the class for the custom business object handler

6.8.2 Implementing the doVerbForCustom() method

Chapter 7. Connector configuration properties

7.1 Overview of connector configuration property

7.1.1 Standard connector configuration properties

7.1.2 Connector-specific configuration properties

7.2 Using properties in your adapter

7.3 Retrieving properties

7.3.1 Single-valued simple properties

7.3.2 Hierarchical properties

7.4 Some last thoughts about standard properties

7.4.1 RepositoryDirectory

7.4.2 DeliveryTransport

Chapter 8. Asynchronous event processing and notification.

8.1 Overview of event notification

8.1.1 Subscription to a business object

8.2 Event and archive stores

8.2.1 Content of an event store

8.2.2 Implementing an event store

8.2.3 Accessing the event store

8.2.4 Creating an archive store

8.3 Polling

8.3.1 Standard behavior

8.3.2 Basic logic for the poll method

8.3.3 Archiving events

8.3.4 Multithreaded

8.3.5 Processing events by event priority

8.3.6 Event distribution

8.4 Custom pollForEvents() method

8.4.1 Accessing a subscription manager

8.4.2 Verifying the connection

8.4.3 Retrieving event records

8.4.4 Getting the business object name, verb, and key

8.4.5 Checking for subscriptions to the event

8.4.6 Retrieving application data

8.4.7 Sending the business object to Adapter Framework

8.4.8 Completing the processing of an event

8.4.9 Archiving the event

8.4.10 Releasing event store resources

8.5 Processing delete events

8.5.1 Setting the verb in the event record

8.5.2 Setting the verb in the business object

8.5.3 Setting the verb during mapping

8.6 Guaranteed event delivery

8.6.1 Container-managed events

8.6.2 Duplicate event elimination

Chapter 9. Synchronous event processing (callback)

9.1 Overview of the executeCollaboration method

9.1.1 Parameters

9.2 Using the executeCollaboration method

9.3 Single or multithreaded support for sequential event processing

9.4 Adapter termination and sequential event processing

9.4.1 Normal termination

9.4.2 Abnormal termination or no neat adapter shutdown situations

Chapter 10. Local versus remote deployment

10.1 Overview of adapter deployment

10.2 Local deployment

10.2.1 Configuring startup in the Windows environment

10.2.2 Configuring startup in a UNIX environment

10.3 Remote deployment.

10.4 Setting up the communication between a remote agent and a broker

10.4.1 Native WebSphere MQ

10.4.2 HTTP/HTTPS

10.4.3 Configuring the adapter startup in remote environments

Chapter 11. Component deployment

11.1 Specifics about component deployment

11.1.1 WebSphere InterChange Server

11.1.2 WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker

11.1.3 WebSphere Application Server

Part 2 Developing our custom adapter

Chapter 12. Setting up the development environment

12.1 Installing the necessary components

12.1.1 Installing WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5.0.1

12.1.2 Installing IBM JDK 1.3.1

12.1.3 Installing WebSphere MQ v5.3.0.2

12.1.4 Installing WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework V2.4

12.1.5 Installing WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Development Kit V2.4

12.2 Developing the adapter

12.2.1 Adapter Framework

12.2.2 Application-specific component

12.2.3 Developing the application-specific component

Chapter 13. Adapter design and environment

13.1 Understanding our scenario environment

13.1.1 The requirements

13.2 Examining the application environment

13.3 Examining the API

13.4 Designing application-specific business objects

13.5 Conclusion

Chapter 14. Object Discovery Agent

14.1 Developing the ODA

14.1.1 Setting up the development environment

14.1.2 Naming conventions for the ODA

14.2 Implementing the ODA

14.2.1 Extending the ODA base class

14.2.2 Obtaining the handle to the ODKUtility object

14.2.3 Initializing the configuration-property array

14.2.4 Initializing ODA metadata

14.2.5 Initializing the ODA startup

14.2.6 Choosing the ODA content protocol

14.2.7 Generating source nodes

14.2.8 Generating business object definitions.

14.2.9 Providing access to generated business object definitions

14.3 Testing the ODA

14.3.1 Setting up the test environment

14.4 Deploying the ODA

14.4.1 Exporting the ODA

14.4.2 Creating the startup scripts

14.5 Generating business objects using the ODA

14.5.1 Completing the business objects

Chapter 15. Initializing and terminating the adapter agent

15.1 Extending the connector base class

15.2 Initializing the adapter agent

15.2.1 Retrieving connector configuration properties

15.2.2 Establishing a connection to the application

15.2.3 Checking the connector version

15.2.4 Terminating the adapter agent

Chapter 16. Implementing a business object handler

16.1 Extending the business-object-handler base class

16.2 Implementing the doVerbFor() method

16.2.1 Obtaining the active verb

16.2.2 Verifying the connection before processing the verb

16.2.3 Branching on the active verb

16.3 Performing the verb operation

16.3.1 Accessing the business object

16.3.2 Implementing our verb operation

Chapter 17. Implementing event notification

17.1 Extending the event store class

17.1.1 Implementing methods to in the CWConnectoreEventStore

17.2 Implementing the fetchEvents() method

17.3 Implementing the deleteEvents() method

17.4 Implementing the setEventStatus() method

17.5 Implementing the archiveEvents() method

17.6 Implementing the recoverInProgress() method

Chapter 18. Polling for events

18.1 Using the pollForEvents() method

Part 3 Setting up applications for our scenario

Chapter 19. Overview of our scenario and applications

19.1 Understanding our scenario environment

19.2 The requirements

Chapter 20. Installing and configuring the scenario infrastructure

20.1 Messaging infrastructure

20.2 The RedTenant Web application.

20.3 Installing the RedTenant application.

Notes:

"This edition applies to Version 4, release 2, modification 4 of WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (product number 5724-G83)."

"July 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

80244168