IBM WM669G - Fundamentals of IBM App Connect Enterprise Application Development

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Unit 1. Introduction to IBM App Connect Enterprise
• Unit 2. Application development fundamentals
• Exercise 1. Importing and testing a message flow
• Unit 3. Creating message flow applications
• Exercise 2. Creating a message flow application
• Unit 4. Key features of IBM App Connect Enterprise
• Course summary

Objective

• Describe the features and uses of IBM App Connect Enterprise
• Describe the IBM App Connect Enterprise architecture and components
• Describe how IBM App Connect Enterprise does basic message processing
• Describe the components of a message flow application and message processing nodes
• Explain how to generate message flow applications from predefined patterns
• Develop, deploy, and test message flow applications
• Describe the IBM MQ connection options
• Describe logical messages and the message assembly, and explain how they are used in IBM App Connect Enterprise application programming
• Explain the concepts of message models and how they are used to help message transformation
• Describe the file processing nodes
• Explain how to configure database nodes to access user databases
• Describe how to use message flow applications with JMS
• Describe how message flow applications can support HTTP and SOAP messages
• Describe how to deploy applications and shared libraries at run time to affect the visibility of resources

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have:

• A basic understanding of current IT technologies such as Structured Query Language (SQL), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Java, and XML Path language (XPath)
• A familiarity with the Eclipse development environment
• A basic understanding of transport protocols such as HTTP and FTP, and message-oriented middleware such as Java Message Service (JMS) and IBM MQ

Audience

This course is designed for solution architects.