WebSphere Message Broker V6

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• work with & define the Message Broker components
• define & test message flows
• use many of the common processing nodes
• write ESQL
• deploy message flows
• transform messages
• resolve errors
• describe transport protocols
• call web services
• define & test message layouts in MRM
• code page conversions
• publish / subscribe.

Who Should Attend
Administrators, applications programmers & developers.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should have a good knowledge of WebSphere MQ concepts. Skills in SQL, XML, Java, or XPath are very helpful, but not essential.
Duration
4 days

Course Code
MQMB
Contents
Day 1
Introduction; Versions; Websphere Business Integration Message Broker; Message Broker Toolkit; The Message Broker components; the Message Broker configuration; How does it work?; Message Flows; Message Sets; Logical and Physical Message; Message Parsing; Parsers (Message Domains); Standards
Practical exercises: Configuration Manager & Message Broker Creating A Configuration Manager Via Commands Creating A Broker Via Commands Creating A Configuration Manager And Broker Via Wizard Activation Method 1 Activation Method 2 Services User Account Broker Domain Details Connection Details

Day 2
Message Broker Toolkit - simple example; Developing Applications; Message Flow; ESQL and the Editor; Starting the Broker and the Configuration Manager; Creating a Message Flow; Saving the Message Flow; Create the Queues; Setting the Node Properties; ESQL; Deploying the Message Flow; Creating an Execution Group; Deploying an Execution Group; Testing; Execution; Errors.
Practical Exercises: Input And Output Nodes Configuring Messages Selecting a Parser Message Modeling Concepts Failure Terminal Adding a Sub Flow Debugging User Trace Alert The Flow Debugge

Day 3
Routing; Introduction; Content Based Or Intelligent Brokering examples; Parser; Parsing example; Selecting a Parser; MQRFH2 structure; the Name Value Data Field; which Message Domain and Format to use; Creating a Message Set Project; Message Definition Files; Message Project File creation; Creating A Message Definition File; Message Model Objects.
Practical exercises: Message Transformation Introduction ESQL Message Tree Correlation Names Nodes The Filter Nodes The Compute Node Commands Creating the Message Flow XML basics Message Tree Correlation Names Nodes .

Day 4
ESQL; Message Tree Manipulation Statements; Database Update Statements; Node Interaction Statements; other Statements; Field Reference in a Tree Structure; Create Module ; Create Function/Procedure; CALL; Create; Inserting, Updating, and Updating Fields Set; Declare; Shared Variables; Deleting and Reordering Fields; Null; Cast Transforming to another Data Type; Date and Time Functions; String Functions; Numeric Functions; List Functions.
Practical exercises: Message repository manager Advanced message flow topics Additional processing nodes JAVA support WEB services.