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Choosing what to install
Choose which components and products to install.
- The Broker component
- The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer
- The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit
- The WebSphere Message Broker ODBC Database Extender
You can install WebSphere Message Broker components and prerequisite products in silent mode on Linux, UNIX, and Windows. For more information, see Installing WebSphere Message Broker components and prerequisite products by using the sample script file.
- The Broker component
- The Broker component is a
set of execution processes that provides message processing facilities
that interact with various application clients that use both point-to-point
and publish/subscribe communications. You can create a broker only
on the computer on which you have installed the Broker component. You can use the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer, the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, or the command line to create
local brokers. The message flows that you create are hosted by a broker.
A broker can host many message flows, in one or more execution groups,
and can support many clients.
You define how messages are received, processed, and delivered to receiving applications or subscribers:
- You can customize some message processing nodes in a message flow with mappings, ESQL, Java™, PHP, and XSL style sheets.
- You can create message models to define message structures that are determined by C and COBOL data structures, industry standards such as SWIFT or EDIFACT, and XML DTD or schema.
- You can develop user-defined extensions (nodes and parsers) to support message processing options that are not provided by the supplied nodes and parsers.
- You can debug message flows and step through processing to check paths and results.
- You can use message flow aggregation to manage multiple requests and responses that are generated by a single input message.
You can install more than one WebSphere Message Broker component on any system. For more information about how different installations can coexist, see Coexistence and migration.
For installation of the Broker component, you can choose between a typical installation and a custom installation. These installation options are explained in Coexistence and migration.
- WebSphere Message Broker Explorer
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The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer is a stand-alone administration environment, that is based on the Eclipse platform, that communicates with one or more brokers. Administrators use the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer to manage the resources that are associated with these brokers. Install the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer on computers on which you intend to perform only administrative tasks.
- WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit
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The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit is an integrated development environment and graphical user interface that is based on the Eclipse platform and the Rational® framework.
Application developers work in separate instances of the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit to develop message flows, message sets, and user-defined nodes and parsers. You can access a shared repository (for example, CVS) to store resources and make them accessible in a secure manner to multiple users.