GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project Open ESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. This course emphasizes hands-on lab work to present the features, functionality, vocabulary and concepts of GlassFish ESB 2.1 for Implementers and Developers new to GlassFish ESB. LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course involve accessing software installed on the students local machine.

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Students who can benefit from this course are developers, implementers and other individuals new to GlassFish ESB who are tasked with the following responsibilities: Installing GlassFish ESB Creating and configuring GlassFish ESB JBI-based projects Managing and monitoring GlassFish ESB applications

To succeed fully in this course, it is helpful for students to have a background in Java and application integration.

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• install GlassFish ESB
• use NetBeans to create and configure GlassFish ESB projects
• deploy projects to GlassFish Application Server
• use a variety of tools to monitor and manage deployed applications

Module 1 - Overview of GlassFish ESB

• Overview of GlassFish ESB
• Definition: GlassFish ESB
• Open Source and GlassFish ESB
• NetBeans 6.5 Design Time
• GlassFish Application Server
• Java Business Integration (JBI)
• Deployment to JBI
• GlassFish Runtime
• JBI Administration

• Preparing to Install GlassFish ESB
• GUI Installation of GlassFish ESB
• Silent Installation of GlassFish ESB
• Starting GlassFish ESB
• Adding JBI Components to GlassFish

• Web Service Definition
• Describing a Message with XSD
• Web Services Description Language
• Abstract and Concrete WSDL
• Business Processes and BPEL
• BPEL, WSDL and XSD
• The Partner Link in BPEL and WSDL
• Variables in BPEL
• Interacting With Partners
• Working With Data
• The BPEL Module in GlassFish ESB
• The XSD, WSDL and BPEL Editors
• Adding a Partner Link
• The BPEL Mapper
• Using XPath Expressions
• Building a BPEL Module Project
• The Composite Application
• Adding a JBI Module
• The CASA Editor
• Building and Deploying a Composite Application

• GlassFish Admin Console
• NetBeans Admin Plug-ins
• Logging Levels
• Viewing and Interpreting Log Files
• Configuring Logging
• Log File Management
• Application Management
• Component Management

• The JMS Message Specification
• The JMS Binding Component
• Messaging Configuration Points
• Configuring the JMS Publisher
• Message Priority
• Message Destination
• Delivery Mode
• Configuring the JMS Consumer
• Accessing Message Properties
• Message Selectors
• Concurrency Options
• Redelivery Handling

• Encoders in JBI
• Parts of a Message Structure
• Node Types
• Character Sets
• Undefined Data Policy
• Child Node Order
• Occurrence
• Matching Data Content
• Node Type: Fixed Length
• Node Type: Delimited
• The Delimiter List
• Delimiter Properties
• Separators and Terminators
• Node Type: Array
• Node Type: Group
• Mixed NodeTypes
• Delimiter Precedence

• Faults in BPEL
• Compensation
• Scope
• Compensation Handlers
• Fault Handlers
• Invoking Compensation

• Correlating Messages
• Message Properties
• Correlation Sets in BPEL
• The Pick Activity
• Defining Correlation in NetBeans

• Business Activity Monitoring
• Describing Data in the IEP
• The Data Flow in an IEP
• Understanding IEP Activity
• Types of IEP Operators
• The IEP in GlassFish ESB
• Configuring the IEP
• WSDL and the IEP
• The IEP at Runtime

• JBI Components
• Java Management Extensions (JMX)
• JConsole
• Using the Management API
• asadmin
• asant
• Scripting

• JBI Configuration Model
• Application Variables
• Application Configuration Objects