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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you’ll
learn how to develop a process model capable of simulation, as well as how to
assess the risks and benefits of a future process design based on simulation
data, process design goals, and using statistical distribution to describe
allocation of resources in the model.

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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you’ll
learn how to develop a process model capable of simulation, as well as how to
assess the risks and benefits of a future process design based on simulation
data, process design goals, and using statistical distribution to describe
allocation of resources in the model.

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Use the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Java
Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 to create a stand-alone Web services
application that can be run from the console. In this tutorial, the first in a
series, start by getting familiar with the Eclipse IDE. Configure the
environment; create projects, packages, and classes; then run the application
from the command line.

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Use the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Java
Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 to create a stand-alone Web services
application that can be run from the console. In this tutorial, the first in a
series, start by getting familiar with the Eclipse IDE. Configure the
environment; create projects, packages, and classes; then run the application
from the command line.

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Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services
Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding
and orchestration. Part 4 of this series describes how to create metadata for
a business process based on the Fabric Business Service Model. This metadata
enables users to reuse and extend existing components, and enables dynamic
endpoint selection at run-time.

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Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services
Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding
and orchestration. Part 4 of this series describes how to create metadata for
a business process based on the Fabric Business Service Model. This metadata
enables users to reuse and extend existing components, and enables dynamic
endpoint selection at run-time.

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Certain aspects of service orientation are best served using an IBM
WebSphere MQ cluster. The cluster provides the location independence, run time
resolution of names, and concurrency required by SOA applications. For these
reasons, adoption of SOA is driving migrations from point-to-point messaging
networks to clustered environments. This article looks at how migration, failover,
and the scaling of queue managers are affected in an SOA context. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

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Learn how to develop JAX-WS applications for use with the updated
WS-Notification functionality included with IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0.
Readers are expected to have some familiarity with Java-based Web services, the
WS-Notification 1.3 family of specifications, and to have had some experience using
the administration console for WebSphere Application Server. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

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In this series, learn about a new business process decomposition
technique that can help you specify business processes that are aligned with a
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
In this article, learn about a set of SOA-aligned business process patterns
that use the decomposition technique described in Part 1. Each pattern belongs to a layer of the decomposition framework. There are patterns for consumer, long-running, human activity, and
short-running processes.

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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. In this tutorial, you’ll
learn about modeling business processes, the various data
models supported by WebSphere Business Modeler, and process
flow control logic and process layout. Finally, you’ll learn about sharing
processes using configuration management tools as well as import and export
functions.

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You need an appropriate governance process model in place to effectively
realize the benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development
life-cycle activities. This article describes SOA governance processes based
on scenarios that are adopted in a typical enterprise during the SOA
development life cycle. Take a close look at important life-cycle activities,
such as service identification, service creation and reuse, service testing,
service versioning and change management, service-level management (quality of
service), and service security. Learn about the challenges that your
organization might face in a typical SOA development life cycle and how to
address these challenges by implementing governance subprocesses and by
delegating certain roles and responsibilities to the respective layers of a
governance body for each scenario.

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Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained widespread acceptance
across the Web as a simpler alternative to SOAP- and Web Services Description
Language (WSDL)-based Web services. Key evidence of this shift in interface
design is the adoption of REST by mainstream Web 2.0 service providers –
including Yahoo, Google, and Facebook — who have deprecated or passed on SOAP
and WSDL-based interfaces in favor of an easier-to-use, resource-oriented
model to expose their services. In this article, Alex Rodriguez introduces you
to the basic principles of REST.

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You need an appropriate governance process model in place to effectively
realize the benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development
life-cycle activities. This article describes SOA governance processes based
on scenarios that are adopted in a typical enterprise during the SOA
development life cycle. Take a close look at important life-cycle activities,
such as service identification, service creation and reuse, service testing,
service versioning and change management, service-level management (quality of
service), and service security. Learn about the challenges that your
organization might face in a typical SOA development life cycle and how to
address these challenges by implementing governance subprocesses and by
delegating certain roles and responsibilities to the respective layers of a
governance body for each scenario.

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In this series, learn about a new decomposition
technique that can help you specify business processes that are aligned with a
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This first article explores decomposing a
business process into different layers of responsibility–as opposed to different
levels of detail–and also looks into the role of the process
controller as well as
how services are identified by where they are needed.

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In this series, learn about a new decomposition
technique that can help you specify business processes that are aligned with a
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This first article explores decomposing a
business process into different layers of responsibility–as opposed to different
levels of detail–and also looks into the role of the process
controller as well as
how services are identified by where they are needed.

[Read more →]

This article details the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) mapping
of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) faults to Java exceptions, Java
exceptions to WSDL faults, and some other exceptions defined by the JAX-WS
specification.

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Develop, build, and package Java class components as Open Services
Gateway initiative (OSGi) bundles and deploy them in the Apache Felix runtime
environment. Then use Felix shell commands to start and stop the bundles and
dynamically update them.

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This article details the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) mapping
of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) faults to Java exceptions, Java
exceptions to WSDL faults, and some other exceptions defined by the JAX-WS
specification.

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Develop, build, and package Java class components as Open Services
Gateway initiative (OSGi) bundles and deploy them in the Apache Felix runtime
environment. Then use Felix shell commands to start and stop the bundles and
dynamically update them.

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Web service as a dedicated security monitoring host or Web services that
work together as the distributed security monitoring host? Judith Myerson
examines the pros and cons of each host type and suggests how each can be used
to solve security problems.

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Create an automatic Build-Deploy-BVT
solution for applications. This article explains how and
introduces a script-generating tool to rapidly generate these scripts based on
application configuration files. You should have a basic
knowledge of service component architecture (SCA), IBM WebSphere Integration
Developer, IBM Rational ClearCase, Ant, and
Java Emitter Templates (JET2) to follow along with this article.

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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. This tutorial
series covers
information about the business process management industry and tool usage.
We’ll review general business process management concepts and modeling
methodologies. In addition, you’ll learn how IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
relates to the SOA life cycle. Finally, you’ll explore critical success
factors for business process modeling.

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Part 3 of this series shows you how to build WebSphere Message Broker
message flows to interact with WebSphere Business Events, enabling you to
use the business event processing power of Business Events in your WebSphere
Message Broker application integration and message transformation environment.

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Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. This tutorial
series covers
information about the business process management industry and tool usage.
We’ll review general business process management concepts and modeling
methodologies. In addition, you’ll learn how IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
relates to the SOA life cycle. Finally, you’ll explore critical success
factors for business process modeling.

[Read more →]

Part 3 of this series shows you how to build WebSphere Message Broker
message flows to interact with WebSphere Business Events, enabling you to
use the business event processing power of Business Events in your WebSphere
Message Broker application integration and message transformation environment.

[Read more →]