About this Course

This course teaches you how to use the tools in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.5.5 to build and deploy process integration solutions.

Audience Profile

This basic course is designed for system administrators, integration specialists, application developers, business process developers, support engineers, and technical sales and marketing professionals.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the purpose and business value of a service-oriented architecture
• Describe the purpose and business value of the tools included in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.5.5: IBM Process Designer, IBM Integration Designer, IBM Process Server, IBM Process Center, IBM Process Portal, Business Space, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
• Identify and describe the features that are available in IBM Process Designer, IBM Integration Designer, and the Service Component Architecture
• Describe the structure of modules and libraries
• Create business objects, shared interfaces, and business calendars
• Model a complex business process diagram in IBM Process Designer
• Create a complex business process that includes basic and structured WS-BPEL activities in IBM Integration Designer
• Use SCA bindings to communicate with web services
• Use WebSphere Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) adapters in applications
• Implement data maps to transform business data
• Implement mediation modules to route and transform messages
• Implement business rules and use the Business Rules Manager web client to interact with business rules at run time
• Create a business space by using widgets and templates that are available for IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.5.5
• Create and run component test projects in IBM Integration Designer
• Bring the UTE Process Server online and connect with the Process Center
• Explore the IBM Process Center repository

Prerequisites

You should have:

• basic Java and Java Platform
• Enterprise Edition (Java EE) skills
• basic Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills

Successful completion of Process Implementing with IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8.5.5 - I (WB814G), is highly recommended, but not required.

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Overview of IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.5
• Exercise: Exploring IBM Process Designer and IBM Process Portal
• IBM Integration Designer overview
• Exercise: Exploring IBM Integration Designer, part I
• Service Component Architecture overview
• Exercise: Exploring IBM Integration Designer, part II
• SCA bindings
• Exercise: Working with web services
• Business objects
• Exercise: Creating business objects and shared interfaces
• Business process choreography overview
• Exercise: Creating a business process, part I
• Business process basic and structured activities
• Exercise: Creating a business process, part II
• Business process handlers, runtime behavior, and clients
• Exercise: Creating a business process, part III
• Business rules
• Exercise: Creating business rules
• Adapters
• Exercise: Implementing WebSphere (JCA) adapters
• Developing mediation services
• Exercise: Creating mediation services, part I
• Mediation primitives
• Exercise: Creating mediation services, part II
• Business Space
• Exercise: Exploring Business Space
• Advanced testing
• Exercise: Using component tests
• IBM Process Center
• Exercise: Bringing the UTE Process Server online
• Exercise: Exploring IBM Process Center
• Course summary