GlassFish ESB 2.1 for Implementers

GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project Open ESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. This course emphasizes hands-on lab work to present the features, functionality, vocabulary and concepts of GlassFish ESB 2.1 for Implementers and Developers new to GlassFish ESB.

Learn To:

• Install GlassFish ESB
• Create and configure Glassfish ESB JBI-based projectsand
• Manage and monitor GlassFish ESB Projectsmonitor

Audience

• J2EE Developer
• SOA Architect

Course Topics Overview of GlassFish ESB

• What is GlassFish ESB?
• NetBeans 6.5 Design time
• Glassfish Application Server
• Java Business Integration (JBI)
• Deployment to JBI
• Glassfish Runtime
• JBI Administration

Installation of Glassfish ESB

• Preparing to install
• GUI Installation
• Silent Installation
• Starting GlassFish ESB
• Adding JBI Components to GlassFish

Using Business Processes in GlassFish ESB

• Web Service Definition
• BPEL, WSDL and XSD
• Business Processes and BPEL
• BPEL, WSDL and XSD
• The Partner Link in BPEL and WSDL
• Using XPath Expressions
• Adding a JBI module
• Building and deploying a composite application

Basic Management and Monitoring

• GlassFish Admin Console
• NetBeans Admin Plug-ins
• Logging Levels
• Viewing and Interpreting Log Files
• Configuring Logging
• Log File Management
• Application Management
• Component Management

Using the JMS Binding Component

• JMS Message Specification and JMS Binding Component
• Messaging configuration points
• Message priority and destination
• Configuring the JMS Consumer
• Accessing Message Properties
• Message Selectors
• Concurrency Options
• Redelivery Handling

Custom Encoders

• Encoders in JBI
• Parts of Message Structure
• Node Types, Character Sets and Undefined Data Policy
• Child Order and Matching Data Content
• Node types: Fixed Length; Delimited; Array; Group
• Delimiter list and properties
• Delimiter Precedence
• Separators and Terminators

Error Handling in BPEL

• Faults in BPEL
• Compensation
• Scope
• Compensation Handlers
• Fault Handlers
• Invoking Compensation

Correlation in BPEL

• Correlating Messages
• Message Properties
• Correlation Sets in BPEL
• The Pick Activity
• Defining Correlation in NetBeans

The Intelligent Event Processor

• Business Activity Monitoring
• Prescribing Data in the IEP
• The Data Flow in an IEP
• Understanding IEP Activity
• Types of IEP Operators
• Configuring the IEP
• WSDL and IEP
• The IEP at Runtime

Advanced Management and Monitoring

• JBI components
• Java Management Extensions (JMX)
• JConsole
• Using the Management API
• Using asadmin and asant
• Scripting

JBI Application Configuration

• JBI Configuration Model
• Application Variables
• Application Configuration Objects

Course Objectives

• Install GlassFish ESB
• Build and Deploy a Composite Application
• Manage and Monitor GlassFish ESB
• Use Java Message Service (JMS)
• Handle errors in BPEL
• Use the Intelligent Event Processor (IEP)
• Configure JBI Applications