Introduction

Introduction
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1. Introducing the IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric and Developers Guide
   
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Introducing the IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric and Developers Guide

The Fabric Developers Guide describes how to build and manage services for the IBM® WebSphere® Business Services Fabric.

The typical audience for this guide are the developers and architects who use WebSphere Business Services Fabric to build business applications.

To better understand the information presented in this guide you need to have knowledge of service-oriented architecture principles and technologies, the WebSphere Integration Developer and the WebSphere Process Server.

The WebSphere Business Services Fabric is a comprehensive service-oriented architecture offering that is designed to extend the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) platform to deliver flexible business applications.

The software suite includes the tools and runtime platform needed to model, assemble, deploy, manage, and govern business services. Industry content packs that contain prebuilt service-oriented architecture assets are available as options.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric consists of two complimentary software components.

1. The IBM Business Services Tool Pack contains the development tools for business applications to build on and extend WebSphere Integration Developer.
2. The IBM Business Services Foundation Pack contains the runtime and manage-time platform for business applications to build on and extends the WebSphere Process Server.

The following industry content packs are available for WebSphere Business Services Fabric.

1. The IBM Insurance Property & Casualty Content Pack focuses on the property and casualty lines of business for insurance enterprises.
2. The IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack focuses on the health insurance processes.
3. The IBM Banking Payments Content Pack focuses on the payment capabilities of financial services enterprises.
4. The IBM Telecom Operations Content Pack focuses on service provisioning and service assurance business processes for telecommunication enterprises.

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1. Introducing the IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric and Developers Guide