 | Position WBIMB within the IBM Business Integration Reference Architecture |
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Understand features and usage of WBIMB and WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker (WBIEB) |
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Install and configure WBIMB and WBIEB |
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Define and test message flows for routing and data transformation |
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Understand the function of most popular processing nodes and use them in message flows |
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Write basic ESQL routines for message manipulation |
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Use problem determination aids to diagnose and solve development and runtime errors |
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Understand supported transport protocols and use some of them in message flows |
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Create and work with self-defining (Extensible Markup Language (XML)), predefined, and undefined data formats |
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Understand how to provide and call Web Services from message flows |
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Define, use, and test simple message layouts in the Message Repository (Message Repository Manager (MRM)) |
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Convert data to and from different codepages and numeric encodings |
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Understand the Publish/Subscribe messaging model |
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Use and administer Pub/Sub messaging in WBIMB and WBIEB |
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Understand how to extend broker functionality with user-written plugins |
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Name factors that affect broker throughput and performance |