JB453 JBoss ESB

Course Outline

The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements of the JB453 JBoss ESB.

Note: Technical content subject to change without notice. Significant changes in course content will generally be available in posted outlines at least two months prior to being implemented in scheduled courses, to allow enrolled students adequate prep time. Reload this page regularly to insure up-to-date information.

1. SOA and ESB This module introduces the concept of a Service Oriented Architecture, providing a definition of SOA, along with describing the characteristics of a service, and the requirements for messaging and an Enterprise Service Bus.
2. ESB Overview This module provides an overview of the JBoss ESB, including ESB Concepts (including providers, services, actions, gateways), example configurations, features, etc.
3. Custom Action Programming This module describes the differences between an ESB aware and non aware client, and how to create and configure custom actions.
4. Transformation Services This module discusses the Smooks transformation service manager. It covers the Smooks action configuration for both non-profile as well as profile-based configurations. Several action configurations are reviewed, as well as the associated Smooks resource configurations. Out-of-the-box transformations are also covered.
5. Routing This module discusses various routing patterns, in particular those implementable with a content based router. The JBoss ESB content based router is discussed, along with a quick introduction to JBoss Drools, on which it is based. The configuration and rules for several routing patterns are reviewed as well.
6. Web Services This module describes JBoss ESB support for Web services. It begins with a quick review of Web Services standards, and then discusses JSR-181 Annotations. The main topic are then covered in detail, which are the configuration on Inbound / Producer and Outbound / Consumer web services on the ESB.
7. Rule Services This module provides an introduction to JBoss Drools and how to configure rules as services on the ESB. Design issues such as stateful vs stateless, rule authoring language choices, and rule deployment are also discussed.
8. Orchestration Orchestration of services is a very important aspect of a service oriented architecture. This module review two orchestration options: jBPM JPDL and WS-BPEL. An introduction to jBPM is provided, along with a quick overview of the WS-BPEL specification.
   
   Upon completion of each module, several "quickstarts" (product examples) will be examined and run as part of the hand-on lab portion of the class.