Contents

About this manual

  • Audience
  • Prerequisites for this document
  • Related documents
  • Typographic conventions
  • New in this release

  • New in WebSphere InterChange Server v4.3
  • New in WebSphere InterChange Server v4.2.2
  • New in WebSphere InterChange Server v4.2.1
  • Overview of IBM WebSphere InterChange Server

  • InterChange Server and the WebSphere business integration system
  • InterChange Server model
  • WebSphere Business InterChange Server Toolset
  • Collaborations, business objects, and connectivity
  • Sample implementation solutions
  • Multiple server deployment
  • Connectivity over the Internet
  • Data flow in an InterChange Server implementation
  • Publish-and-subscribe interactions
  • Access requests
  • Request/response interactions
  • Sample data flows
  • Connectors
  • Connector communication with applications
  • Binding between elements
  • Binding a trigger
  • Binding destinations
  • Business objects
  • Roles of a business object
  • Structure of a business object
  • Application-specific and generic business objects
  • Data mapping
  • InterChange Server
  • Event management service
  • Connector controllers
  • Repository
  • Database connectivity service
  • Database connection pools
  • High availability
  • Transaction service
  • Recovery features
  • Communication transport infrastructure
  • Distribution on a network
  • Distribution across the Internet
  • Securing InterChange Server
  • Encryption
  • End-to-end privacy
  • Role-based access control
  • Summary
  • 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

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