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Introduction toWebSphere Message Broker

Carsten Mai – [email protected]


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Application Complexity without an ESB

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An ESB Simplifies Connectivity

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…and at the heart of an interconnected enterprise is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

What is an ESB?An (ESB) is a flexible connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications, systems and services.

Shape = Transport protocol

Color = Data format

An ESB performs the following between requestor and service

CONVERTS between different transport protocols

MATCHES & ROUTES communications between services

TRANSFORMS between different data formats

IDENTIFIES & DISTRIBUTES business events


What is WebSphere Message Broker?

Message Broker enables “universal connectivity” by integrating protocols, message formats and mediation patterns

– Emphasis on application re-use

Fits naturally with WebSphere MQ– Robust, scalable architecture– Optimized for high throughput– Flexible broker topologies

Three programming constructs are used: – Message Flows– Nodes– Message Models


Application Connectivity

Protocols– e.g. MQ, TCP/IP, HTTP, File system, FTP, SMTP etc.

Message Formats– e.g. Binary (C/COBOL), XML, Industry (SWIFT, EDI, HL7), User-defined

Mediation Patterns– e.g. Route, Transform, Enrich, Filter, Monitor, Distribute, Decompose, Correlate, Fire

and Forget, Request/Reply, Publish/Subscribe, Aggregation, Fan-in, Complex Event Processing


[Customer, Order, Quantity, Price, Date]

Mr. Smith, Graphics Card, 32, 100, 24/06/2010

MQ MQMQ MQ

<order> <name> <first>John</first> <last>Smith</last> </name> <item>Graphics Card</item> <quantity>32</quantity> <price>200</price> <date>06/24/2010</date></order>

[Customer, Order, Quantity, Price, Date]

WS

MQ MQ

Mediation Patterns – Routing and Transformation


WS

MQ MQ

Application Connectivity with WMB

WMB can act as an intermediary Flexible topologies


Input source

Output target (Failure)

Reusable Scalable Transactional

Output target

Output targetTransform

Message Flows


Message Flow Example

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What are Message Flows?

Message flows are transactional

Provides vital processing and data manipulationCompletes all or none of its processing successfully.

Message flows are multithreaded

Message passing through a series of nodes will execute on a single thread. Message flows can be defined with many additional threads assigned to them to increased message throughput.Peak workloads use additional threads, which are pooled during inactivity.

Message flow nesting and chaining allow construction of enhanced capabilities.

Sophisticated flows can be rapidly constructed by linking individual flows together as well as nesting flows within each other.


Nodes

The building blocks of message flows

Each node type performs a different (input, output or processing) action

Many different node types

– Grouped into logical categories in the message flow editor

– Nearly 100 nodes available out-of-the-box(as of WMB V7)


Lots of Nodes are Built in [1]


Lots of Nodes are Built in [2]

Many other nodes available through product extensions and supportpacs– For example, WebSphere TX, Tibco RV, VSAM, QSAM

Write your own User-Defined Nodes in C or Java


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terminal

input connector

output connectors

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input message

tree output terminals

error terminal

output message

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Node Terminology


Message Flow Editor


Message Broker Patterns


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Input Message Bit-stream

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Output Message Bit-stream

Parser converts bit-stream to logical structure

Model

Parser converts logical structure to bit-stream

Model

Parsers


<order> <name> <first>John</first> <last>Smith</last> </name> <item>Graphics Card</item> <quantity>32</quantity> <price>200</price> <date>07/11/09</date></order>

John,Smith,Graphics Card,32,200,07/11/09

John Smith............Graphics Card.........3220020071109.........

Order

Name Item Qty Price Date

First LastString String

String Integer Integer Date

Physical Logical

Message Modeling


public class jcn extends MbJavaComputeNode { public void evaluate(MbMessageAssembly assembly) throws MbException { ... String lastName = (String)assembly.getMessage().evaluateXPath(“/Body/Order/Name/Last”); ... }}

IF Body.Order.Date < ‘2008/01/01’ THEN INSERT INTO Database.OldOrders (LastName,Item,Quantity) VALUES (Body.Order.Name.Last, Body.Order.Item, Body.Order.Quantity);ENDIF;

Easily Address Message Elements


Message Set

C Header

XMLSchema

COBOLCopybook

WSDL

DTD

File Import

EnterpriseInformation

System(SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft)

Pre-built

SOAP, MIME, CSV, IDOC,

SWIFT, EDIFACT, X12,

FIX, HL7,etc

Defineyour own

using the Eclipse-based

Tooling

Parsers

Message Broker

Creating Message Models


WebSphere Message Broker Mediation Patterns - Concepts

Log/Monitor CorrelateDistributeRouteTransformProtocol transform

Enrich

Request / Response

Pub/Sub - Event Prop.

Canonical Adapter

+ + +

Transform – Log - Route

GatewayOne-way Dispersion / Aggregation

Interaction Patterns

Transformation & Routing Patterns

Composite Patterns

Examples


Mediation Patterns – Interaction Patterns

Request / Respons

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Pub/Sub - Event Prop.

GatewayOne-way

Service Provider

Protocol transform

Service Requestor

Dispersion / Aggregation

Enterprise Service Bus


Façade and Adapter Pattern

Web Service

Adapters are one of many ways to access external applications from WebSphere Message Broker – “Service enablement”

SocketsFiles ...Message Broker

Message Flow

JMS OutputMQ Input

Adapters

Messaging


Transformation Pattern - Transform

Service Provider


Service Requestor

Transformation Patterns Routing Patterns

Log/Monitor CorrelateDistributeRoute

Transform Enrich


Transformation Pattern - Enrich or Augment

Service Provider


Service Requestor


Database, File, or Static data



Transform Enrich


Transformation Pattern – Log or Monitor

Service Provider


Service Requestor





Transform Enrich


Monitoring and Auditing

Generate Monitoring and Audit Events from Message Flow– Easily gain insight into application and service connectivity– Business Monitoring & Intelligence and audit scenarios

Administration and Development time Configuration– Every MB nodes includes a ‘Monitor’ tab to generate events

• Transaction: Start, End, Rollback issued from input nodes• Terminal: from any terminal on any node

– Configure payload data, content style, identity, correlation & sequencing data– Non-invasive nature allows monitoring profile to be applied to existing flows

Operational Control– Operationally enable, disable, change event production: mqsichangeflowmonitoring command– Events are published on well known topic over MQ transport for multiple concurrent consumers– ‘Lazy’ notification provides excellent performance characteristics

Integration with other products– WebSphere Business Monitor

• Monitor and analyze KPIs • Comprehensive sample built-in

Monitor

Analyze


Routing Pattern – Route and Distribute

Service Provider


Service Requestor



Transform Enrich


Routing Pattern - Correlate


Transform Enrich


Service Requestor


Service Provider

Service Provider

Service Providers

AggregationCollectorSequencer / Resequencer


Mediation Patterns – Common Composite Pattern Example

Service Provider


Service Requestor

Canonical Adapter Protocol+Data

Transform

+ + +Transform – Log - Route




BrokerMessage

Broker Toolkit

Message Broker

Explorer

ExecutionGroup

ExecutionGroup

Architected for High Performance and Scalability

Message Broker Toolkit– Development and Test Environment– Built on Rational Application Developer

Message Broker Explorer– Advanced Administration Tool– Built on MQ Explorer

Broker– Standalone runtime environment that runs

message flows– Execution groups for isolation and scalability– Many different platforms– Builds on an MQ queue manager


Runtime Components

Runs message flow processing logic

Made up of one or more ‘execution group’ processes that can run multiple message flows each– Provides isolation and scalability– Effective use of multi-core processors

Available on Windows, z/OS, AIX, HP, Solaris, Linux (Intel, zSeries, PPC)

Requires a local MQ Queue Manager

BrokerExe grp

Exe grpExe grp

Queue Manager


WebSphere Message Broker

Universal Connectivity– Simplify application connectivity to provide a flexible and dynamic infrastructure

Routes and transforms messages FROM anywhere, TO anywhere– Supports a wide range of protocols

• MQ, JMS 1.1, HTTP(S), Web Services, File, EIS (SAP,SEBL…), TCP/IP, User Defined– Supports a broad range of data formats

• Binary (C/COBOL), XML, Industry (SWIFT, EDI, HIPAA…), User Defined– Interactions and Operations

• Route, Filter, Transform, Enrich, Monitor, Distribute, Decompose, Correlate, Detect…

Simple programming– Patterns based for top-down, parameterized connectivity of common use cases

• Web Service façades, message oriented processing, queue to file…– Construction based for bottom-up assembly of bespoke connectivity logic

• Message flows to describe application connectivity comprising…• Message nodes which encapsulate required integration logic which operate on…• Message tree which describes the data in a format independent manner

– Transformation options include graphical mapping, PHP, Java, ESQL, XSL and WTX

Operational Management and Performance– Extensive Administration and Systems Management facilities for developed solutions– Wide range of operating system and hardware platforms supported– Offers performance of traditional transaction processing environments

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