Course Content
Message broker introduction
- What is message broker, Advantages, market advantages
Installation
- Planning for installation
- Required software
- Optional software
- Software
- Security
- User ID
- Other security issues
- Installing the required software
- The Launchpad
- Installing with the Express Installation
- Installing with the Advanced Installation
- Post installation
- WebSphere MQ service
- DB2 Universal Database
- Rational Agent Controller
- Verifying the installation
- Creating the default configuration
- Running the Getting Started samples
- Next steps
- Navigating the Message Brokers Toolkit
- Installing product fix packs
- Before you install a fix pack
- Installing a fix pack
- Updates to the Message Brokers Toolkit
Developing applications with ESQL
- Developing message flow applications with ESQL
- Messages in WebSphere Message Broker
- The Message Flow editor
- ESQL and the ESQL editor
- Scenarios demonstrated in this chapter
- Before you start
- Developing the Simple message flow application
- Creating the ESQL_Simple message flow
- Configuring the ESQL_Simple message flow
- Writing ESQL for the Compute node
- Deploying and testing the ESQL_Simple message flow
- Diagnosing problems with the ESQL_Simple message flow
- Developing the Bookstore scenario using ESQL
- Creating the Bookstore scenario database
- Creating the ESQL_Create_Customer_Account message flow
- Creating the ESQL_Book_Order message flow
- Deploying and testing the ESQL Bookstore message flows
- Summary
Developing applications with Java
- Developing message flow applications with Java
- Java and the Java editor
- Scenarios described in this chapter
- Before you start
- Developing the Simple message flow application
- Creating the Java_Simple message flow
- Configuring the Java_Simple message flow
- Writing Java for the Java_Simple message flow
- Deploying and testing the Java_Simple message flow
- Developing the Bookstore scenario using Java
- Creating the Java_Create_Customer_Account message flow
- Creating the Java_Book_Order message flow
- Deploying and testing the Java Bookstore message flows
- Summary
Developing applications with mappings
- Developing message flow applications with mappings
- Message sets and message definitions
- Mapping and the Message Mapping editor
- Scenarios described in this chapter
- Before you start
- Developing the Simple message flow application
- Defining the message model
- Creating the Mapping_Simple message flow
- Configuring the Mapping_Simple message flow
- Creating the mappings for the Mapping_Simple message flow
- Deploying and testing the Mapping_Simple message flow
- Developing the Bookstore scenario with mappings
- Defining the message model
- Creating the Create_Customer_Account message flow
- Creating the Mapping_Book_Order message flow
- Deploying and testing the Mapping Bookstore message flows
- Summary
Administration
- WebSphere Message Broker administration
- Creating a broker domain
- Resources required for a simple broker domain
- Steps for manually creating a simple broker domain
- WebSphere MQ resources
- Extending a broker domain
- Adding a remote broker to the domain
- Deploying resources to a remote broker
- Creating a User Name Server
- Deploying message flow applications
- Creating a message broker archive
- Message flow application resource versioning
- Publish/subscribe
- Publish/subscribe basic concepts
- Broker topology
- Topics
- Subscriptions
Troubleshooting and problem determination
- Locating error information
- Event messages
- Messages within the Message Brokers Toolkit
- Message Brokers Toolkit Event Log
- Messages on the command line
- Windows Event Viewer
- Locating more information about event messages
- Other useful logs
- Using the message Flow Debugger
- Adding breakpoints to a message flow
- Attaching the Flow Debugger
- Tracking a message through a flow
- Stepping through ESQL
- Stepping through mappings
- Debugging Java code
- Flow of errors in a message flow
- Disconnecting the debugger
- Using trace
- Tracing execution groups
- Tracing components
- Tracing commands
- Tracing the Message Brokers Toolkit
- WebSphere MQ trace
- ODBC trace
- Troubleshooting common problems
- Default Configuration wizard problems
- Errors with the Message Brokers Toolkit
- Problems connecting to the Configuration Manager
- Problems with deployment
- Messages stuck on the input queue
- Common DB2 Universal Database Errors
- Further information for troubleshooting
Getting help
- Message Brokers Toolkit help
- Getting context-sensitive help
- Receiving automatic updates
- Receiving manual updates
- Getting help from other sources
- Serving an information center from a single location
- Useful links
- Appendix B. Code
- Locating the Web material
- Using the Web material
- How to use the Web material
