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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 990, Modeling Business Processes with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6. This tutorial covers modeling organizations, roles, resources, and related attributes, documenting the flow of business items through a process and determining the best way to accurately describe a process. In addition, it addresses how to use Modeler within a collaborative environment, define naming conventions to effectively manage a model and understand limitations and restrictions of change management. Finally, you will learn how to import and export model artifacts. It is the first tutorial in a series of five tutorials.

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Welcome to the third tutorial in the “Hello World” series, which provides high-level overviews of various IBM software products. This tutorial will give you a high-level introduction to WebSphere Integration Developer. It includes three practical hands-on exercises in which you’ll create a BPEL business process and a business rule group, and then integrate them.

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The IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) plug-ins for Rational Application Developer give developers the ability to connect, browse and alter DB2 databases. In this tutorial learn how the Rational Application Development perspectives, views and wizards assist you with defining and working with database object DDL such as schemas and tables. Learn how to create, execute and edit DML statements such as SELECTs and INSERTS. Create, execute, run, and debug DB2 stored procedures with the Rational Data and Debug perspectives.

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WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition provides proven enterprise search technology capable of indexing vast collections of enterprise data. Presently OmniFind incorporates a Java-based API to provide application developers a direct connection to an OmniFind instance. This tutorial develops a Web service interface in order to leverage the search capabilities of OmniFind in any SOAP-capable programming language. In addition to developing and deploying this Web Service, you will also develop and test five non-Java clients (PHP, Perl, C#, ASP .NET, and OpenLaszlo) to show the interoperability gained through the Web service.

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The MetroSphere project is designed to provide technical professionals with the ability to gather all their information in one place, both through collaboration with other professionals and through the creation of personal pages. In this tutorial, you create a clipping service for an online community site that searches and retrieves information about a particular topic using Web services. Discover how to create and integrate clients for Amazon and Google Web services, enabling users to search for books and Web sites on a particular topic.

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This tutorial is for J2EE developers struggling to find the best method of incorporating disparate environments and looking for an easy way to leverage standard data access methodologies for consuming data. With WebSphere Information Integrator, developers can assess data — ultimately propagated from a Web Service — through a simple SQL call or any other method one normally uses to access data from a database. This tutorial will show you how to tie DB2 to a back-end Web Service creating virtual tables that one can access directly from a standard Web page.

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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to create the components of a subscription application for Intelligent Notification Services Version 2.2, part of Websphere Everyplace Access Version 5.

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This tutorial provides an overview of OmniFind, describes the installation and configuration steps required to run sample searches on different data sources, and illustates the use of the OmniFind-supplied APIs.

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WebSphere Studio Application Developer provides a development environment and provides plug-ins for popular version control systems. This tutorial shows how to manage source code using ClearCase LT as the version control system. The scenarios simulate two developers working on the same application.

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This tutorial chronicles the configuration of WebSphere Business Integration Connect Enterprise Edition for SMTP/AS1 communications. It includes a scenario that allows two community participants to exchange EDI transactions using AS1 and SMTP Client for WebSphere Business Integration Connect.

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The latest release of IBM WebSphere Studio and the Portal Toolkit plug-in provide new features for developing front-end applications using Java Server Faces. These features enable developers to quickly and easily use visual rapid-application development tools and provide a rich set of interesting user interface components not easily created or maintained in the past. This tutorial demonstrates how a framework as flexible as Java Server Faces and the tools provided by both WebSphere Studio and the Portal Toolkit make short order of integrating, testing and maintaining a portal-based front end.

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Learn how to create portlets using the new visual development functions in WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.1.2 and Portal Toolkit V5.0.2.2. In particular, you’ll use: JavaServer Faces, WebSphere Data Object, and Click-to-Action. We’ll apply these features to create a sample auction database portal. The programming models and runtime frameworks, along with new easy-to-use tools, make it easier to build applications running on WebSphere Portal.

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Struts is a very popular framework that adds a flexible control layer to building Web based applications using common standard technologies like servlets, JavaBeans components, resource bundles, and custom tag libraries. This tutorial provides a hands-on approach to developing Struts based portal applications using WebSphere Studio v5.1.2 and the Portal Toolkit v5.0.2.2.

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Security is an essential part of any Web service. WebSphere Studio Application Developer allows you to take advantage of security standards and without much effort create all of the necessary configuration to add security to your services. This tutorial shows you how to authenticate using a user ID and password, ensure integrity using digital signatures, and ensure confidentiality using encryption.

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Extend a portlet to support Wireless Markup Language (WML) devices, deploy the portlet in WebSphere Everyplace Access, and use transcoding technology to support multiple devices. This tutorial from the dragonslayers shows you how.

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This tutorial guides you through the necessary steps to build mobile Web services clients on J2ME MIDP devices. By following the steps in this tutorial, you will see how quick and easy it is to create a Web services client. The example built in this tutorial is a stock quote client application and uses the WebSphere Studio Device Developer V5.6 Web Services tooling.

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Lotus Workplace Web Content Management leverages content in back-end systems to reduce development and implementation time. It enables you to create a framework and templates to simplify content creation and management, which can dramatically reduce the cost of managing your site, while ensuring that information on your site always remains current. This tutorial explains the key concepts and terminology necessary to understand the product, and demonstrates how to use it to design Web pages and to build a site. It provides a technical walk through demonstrating how to build specific components for a page and how to prepare templates for easily creating additional content.

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WebSphere Education on Demand provides a framework of self-study educational modules on WebSphere that are simple, short, and focused. You can access content in several forms: narrated presentations, tutorials and links to additional resources.

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Developing applications that access both Web services and database management systems can be an overwhelming task. It doesn’t need to be. This tutorial demonstrates how to generate DB2 user-defined functions (UDFs) that provide access to Web services. The generated UDFs can be used in SQL statements to combine relational data with dynamic data retrieved from a Web service. Several different examples are provided.

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This tutorial details how to install this new collaborative environment, built on WebSphere Portal V5. This environment is a good starting point to get a feel for what version 1.1 offers. The installation can be used as a preview of the technology.

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In WebSphere Application Server V5, an application component provider can use the res-auth element to specify how to associate a security principal to a data source. This article describes the relationship between a container-managed alias, a component-managed alias, and the res-auth element in the deployment descriptor, describing how WebSphere Application Server associates these aliases with a data source under different res-auth settings.

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This acticle illustrates the steps to build a Java application based on a Rational Rose class diagram using the Eclipse Modeling Framework, and also shows how to develop the same Java application using the Universal Modeling Language visualization tool.

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Building EJB applications can be professionally lucrative. However, traditionally the process of doing so has been extremely labor-intensive. This tutorial introduces you to the EJB tools available in the latest version of IBM WebSphere Application Developer, including a number of helpful wizards and GUI tools. You’ll see how to build a variety of EJB components with a minimum of coding.

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This tutorial shows you how to leverage your Domino assets in a Portal environment by creating a JSP-driven portlet application that uses the Portal API. Integrating a Domino application with WebSphere Portal by using the Portal API provides the most flexibility in combining your Domino data with that from other sources.

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This tutorial demonstrates how to use the WebSphere Application Server to deploy Web services, and how to publish them onto a UDDI registry using IBM’s WebSphere Studio V5.1.1. Part 1 of this tutorial focused on the use of WebSphere Studio for designing a work order creation service. In this second part of the tutorial, you will deploy and publish the Web service you developed in Part 1. The example makes use of a Web service to facilitate multiple clients creating work orders in your system.

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