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Overview of IBM WebSphere InterChange Server
Tools for use with InterChange Server
WebSphere Business Integration Toolset
System Manager
Component configuration
System Manager and InterChange Server modes
Development tools
Administrative tools
Collaborations
Collaboration templates and objects
Collaboration processing
Service call handling and long-lived business processes
Collaborations and concurrent processing
Collaboration groups
Ports
Dynamic service calls
Scenarios
Business process logic
Interactions with connectors and applications
Collaboration startup
Summary
Business objects
Business object definitions and business objects
Components of a business object definition
Attributes
Verbs
A closer look at application-specific business objects
Attribute organization
Application-specific information
Modification options
Summary
Connectors
Connector startup
Event notification
Setting up the application's event-notification mechanism
Detecting an event
Processing an event
Request processing
Verb-based processing
Verb-based application-specific information
Concurrent processing capabilities
Business object construction and deconstruction
Business object metadata and connector actions
Benefits of metadata-driven connector agents
An example of business object construction
Connector configuration
Connector properties
Associated maps
Connector development
Summary
Data mapping
How the InterChange Server system uses mapping
Map components and tools
Mapping transformations
Simple transformations
Relationship transformations
Configuring connectors with maps
Summary
Transactional collaborations
The transaction model
What is a transactional collaboration?
Transactional scenarios
Subtransactions
Compensation and rollback
Data isolation
Transaction levels
None
Minimal Effort
Best Effort
Stringent
Recovery
Transactional collaborations and long-lived business processes
Summary
Language-specific behavior support
Locale support in the WebSphere Business Integration products
Establishing a locale
Processing locale-dependent data
Design considerations
Content data encoding
Meta-configuration data encoding
Log and trace data encoding
Bidirectional script support
Bidirectional language characteristics
Layout transformations and attributes
Text layout
Layout attributes
Layout transformations
Enabling bidirectional scripts in WebSphere Business Integration products
Enabling connectors for bidirectional scripts
Enabling Adapter Framework for bidirectional scripts
Enabling collaborations for bidirectional scripts
Enabling maps for bidirectional scripts
Handling bidirectional text
Migrating data
Special bidirectional strings
BiDi APIs
Design limitations
Summary
Notices
Programming interface information
Trademarks and service marks
Index
