Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Design and implement complex integration flows involving multiple nodes and message formats
- Utilize advanced message transformation techniques, including XSLT, ESQL, and Data Maps
- Implement robust error handling and exception management strategies
- Secure integration flows using various security mechanisms
- Optimize integration flows for performance and scalability
- Troubleshoot and resolve common integration issues
- Deploy and manage integration solutions in production environments
Course outlines
- Module 1: Advanced Message Flow Development
- Advanced message flow patterns (e.g., scatter-gather, loopback)
- Complex message transformations using XSLT and ESQL
- Utilizing Data Maps for advanced data mapping scenarios
- Creating custom Java components for integration logic
- Module 2: Error Handling and Exception Management
- Implementing robust error handling mechanisms
- Using the Catch node and Throw node for exception handling
- Configuring error handling policies
- Logging and monitoring errors for troubleshooting
- Module 3: Security in Integration Flows
- Securing message flows using SSL and TLS
- Implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms
- Protecting sensitive data using encryption and masking
- Configuring security policies
- Module 4: Performance Optimization
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in integration flows
- Optimizing message flow design and node configurations
- Tuning message flows for throughput and latency
- Monitoring and analyzing integration flow performance
- Module 5: Deployment and Management
- Deploying integration solutions to production environments
- Managing integration nodes and servers
- Monitoring and troubleshooting integration flows in production
- Using the IBM Integration Toolkit for deployment and management tasks
- Hands-on Exercises:
- These exercises will cover:
- Building complex integration flows
- Implementing advanced message transformations
- Configuring error handling and security policies
- Optimizing integration flow performance
- Deploying and managing integration solutions