IBM Websphere Message Broker V6.0 Delivers an Advanced Enterprise Service Bus
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Software Announcement September 6, 2005 IBM WebSphere Message Broker V6.0 delivers an advanced enterprise service bus Overview and the integration challenges multiply, WebSphere Message At a glance IBM WebSphere Message Broker Broker can accommodate the Version 6.0 delivers the solution for changing needs of your business by: This new version continues to your current application integration deliver significant new function • and information mediation needs. It Growing your infrastructure that satisfies major customer can add advanced capabilities to without increasing the complexity requirements and at the same time your enterprise service bus (ESB) by • Protecting your existing and improves migration, performance, extending the integration of your ongoing investments in and ease of use. service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications and data structures • to encompass your entire enterprise Flexible transformation • and beyond. Seamlessly extending your • Improved performance enterprise service bus WebSphere Message Broker • Simplified installation and Version 6.0 adds real value to the WebSphere Message Broker is the migration reliable connections between cost-effective solution for your applications and systems as enterprise′s extensive integration • Enhanced support for Web provided by WebSphere MQ and and mediation needs today and will services protect your investment into the other WebSphere products. It • An improved development future. provides the key capabilities your toolkit business needs to transform and route your business data between WebSphere Message Broker with • New ways of driving flows applications. Rules and Formatter Extension V6.0 offers the full level of function • Enhanced message parsing By removing the need for your provided by WebSphere Message • Improved management business applications to include Broker, with the addition of support routing and transformation logic, you for the Rules and Formatter • Improved security can ensure your applications stay capability from New Era of Networks. focused and your business stays • Extended platform support flexible. WebSphere Event Broker V6.0 offers an easy way to distribute information For ordering, contact: WebSphere Message Broker can act based on the content of messages. Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at as a message and protocol switch. Event Broker does this by providing This enables you to connect publish and subscribe capabilities for 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 disparate applications and business customers who do not require the data across multiple platforms and powerful and adaptable to provide transformation and transformation capabilities provided Planned availability dates intelligent routing capabilities for all by Message Broker. your business information. It makes • September 30, 2005: Electronic business data available exactly All these products now contain a software delivery where you want it in the format you copy of WebSphere MQ • need it. Everyplace , allowing you to link October 21, 2005: Media and directly from WebSphere Message documentation WebSphere Message Broker′s robust Broker or WebSphere Event Broker design, scalable architecture, high out to mobile platforms and devices. performance, and ease of use deliver the capability to build your Key prerequisites enterprise service bus to implement an enterprise-wide SOA in stages. Refer to the Software requirements and Hardware requirements This flexible combination of sections. capabilities provides your business with the tools to solve your integration requirements from any starting point: a simple two-application solution or a multi-application, multi-platform design. As your business expands This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 205-206 8. Improved error recovery by the use of SQL Description handlers IBM WebSphere Message Broker Version 6.0 delivers 9. Multiple out terminals to combine the function of significant new function for integrating virtually all compute and filter nodes applications while continuing to improve performance, ease of use, and flexibility for developers and • XSLT enhancements administrators. Performance of XSLT transformations is improved by the support of compiled style sheets. The style sheets Flexible transformation can also be deployed using the standard deployment facilities. Transformations can be authored using tools that match ′ both the user s skills and the data being transformed. The Improved performance and scalability improved graphical mapping editor allows simple drag and drop transformations. Alternatively, developers who Performance of the broker runtime has been significantly prefer to program can use Java , ESQL, or XSLT as improved by reducing the pathlength of the major broker transformation languages. functions. The cost of parsing and streaming messages • Improved graphical mapping has been reduced. ESQL and publish/subscribe functions have been optimized. The aggregation nodes are The improved graphical mapping editor makes re-implemented to use queues to save state rather than transforming both simple and complex messages as a database to significantly improve throughput, easy as dragging and dropping. particularly of non-persistent requests. Maps can be developed iteratively either top-down A new in-memory cache, mentioned above, allows more (building the target format as part of map creation) or efficient flow to be developed. The Message Repository bottom-up (building the source as part of map Manager (MRM) and XML parsers have reduced their creation) map development scenarios in addition to storage requirements to allow larger messages to be the existing support for meet-in-the-middle map dealt with. development. Drag and drop gestures predict the desired result of the transformation. Novice users are The tools performance and scalability are improved. The guided through mapping by “predictions” that tools take advantage of Eclipse 3.0 multi-threaded generate an initial mapping using drag and drop builders to quickly return control to the user. A techniques. New features include the ability to split performance analysis team optimized the complete source messages into a number of output messages, tooling path, resulting in significant time savings for tools message header mapping, and easy mapping of users. repeating elements. Simplified installation and migration • Routing and transformation rules in Java Installation of the product has been simplified by reducing A new Java compute node allows routing and the prerequisite products required. The configuration transformation logic to be written in Java using manager no longer requires a database and other broker existing programming skills. A standard J2SE 1.4.2 requirements have been reduced. environment is provided with the standard Eclipse Java editor with color highlighting and code assist. A default configuration wizard is provided to quickly build No ESQL skill or experience is required. a full environment for development or other simple configurations on Windows and Linux . The Java jar files can be deployed to the broker runtime using the standard broker deployment Migration from previous releases (branded WebSphere facilities. MQ Integrator and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker) is supported; utilities are provided to • ESQL enhancements make version-to-version migration a simple operation. ESQL has been extended to make transforming and Installation and configuration of the product on z/OS has routing messages using ESQL even easier. been simplified. Improvements include: Enhanced support for Web services 1. In-memory cache to avoid access to databases for read only routing or validation data Web services support is extended by support for more standards such as SOAP 1.2 and HTTP 1.1 in addition to 2. Improved support for creating DATETIME verification that Web services comply with the Web variables Services Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile. 3. Access to multiple databases from the same Modelling and transformation of SOAP messages is compute node simplified and the ability to import WSDL definitions is 4. Dynamic database schemas provided to allow the generated WSDL to be more easily used in client development tools. 5. New user-defined properties that can pass parameters to ESQL to modify standard behavior The HTTP transport has been extended to provide HTTPS support. 6. Access to environment information such as flow name and broker name, and so forth Improved development toolkit 7. Improved support for result sets returned by database stored procedures The development toolkit is based on the latest release of Rational Application Developer and Eclipse. New XML editors are provided. 205-206 -2- Visual debugging of flows, ESQL, Java, and graphical Extended platform support mappings is simplified by reducing Eclipse perspective switching. The Configuration Manager is supported on all the broker platforms including z/OS, UNIX , Linux, and Microsoft New ways of driving flows Windows. Message flows can now be driven by JMS transports in The development toolkit can be installed on Linux in addition to WebSphere MQ. Supported JMS providers addition to Windows. include the embedded JMS provider in WebSphere Database support on Linux for Intel is extended