Websphere Business Services Fabric Tutorials: Learning Resources

Part 1: Authoring a CBA in Business Space
This article series shows you how to create a CBA in Business Space powered by WebSphere®, and then make governed changes to the application logic using Business Process Agility widgets.
Part 2: Modeling and implementing a composite business application
In Part 2 of this series, you'll learn how to enhance the model created in Part 1 in WebSphere® Business Modeler V6.2, and implement it in WebSphere Integration Developer V6.2 and WebSphere Business Services Fabric Composition Studio V6.2.

Developing adaptive composite business services using WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Part 1 Introducing IBM's new platform for business service modeling, assembly, and deployment (2007 April)
This series of articles discusses the end-to-end process of creating composite business services with IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric Version 6.0. Part 1 introduces the idea of composite business services, and how WebSphere Business Services Fabric supports the development of these services.
Part 2: Analyzing the business requirements (2007 May)
With a conceptual understanding of composite business services from Part 1, this article looks at a sample business case to illustrate how IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric supports the development of these services and how it can help resolve business problems.
Part 3: CBS modeling, ontology editing, and policy simulation (2007 August)
Part 3 in this series provides a step by step guide to create a Composite Business Service (CBS) model. This article covers the CBS modeling in IBM WebSphere Business Composition Studio, editing the ontology and policies definition, and using Policy Simulator to verify the assembly. Updated for IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.0.2. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)
Part 4: Service assembly with the Dynamic Assembler SCA component (2007 August)
Continuing with composite business service modeling, ontology editing, and policy simulation from Part 3, this installment provides a step-by-step sample to demonstrate how to use the Business Services Dynamic Assembler SCA component to assemble services in the IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric tooling environment. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)

Use WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.1 to Build Composite Business Services

Part 1: Overview of WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.1 (2009 March)
IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric is a comprehensive SOA offering that builds upon and extends IBM’s BPM platform and is designed to help companies assemble and manage composite business applications to achieve greater flexibility and business model innovation. This series of articles introduces you to WebSphere Business Services Fabric V 6.1 and shows you how to use it to build composite business services.
Part 2: Business analysis and component business services scenario (2009 March)
In Part 1 of this series, we gave an overview of, and described the new features in WebSphere Business Services Fabric (WBSF), v6.1. Now this article will introduce a small business case study to show the business problem, analyze the business requirements, and finally to provide a solution based on WBSF.
Part 3: Design and implementation (2009 May)
The first article in this series, Part 1: Overview of WebSphere Business Services Fabric v6.1, provides an overview of WebSphere Business Service Fabric 6.1. In Part 2: Scenario Introduction, Problem Statement, and Business Analysis, we introduced how WBSF can be used for a Visa Application scenario in which there is a need for dynamic service provider selection. In this third installment, we’ll detail all the steps involved in implementing the scenario in order to address the need bybuilding a Composite Business Service, using WBSF 6.1.
Part 4: Service Monitoring using Performance Manager (2009 May)
In the previous three articles of this series, we gave an overview for the WebSphere Business Service Fabric 6.1 and used business analysis to define WBSF artifacts that meet business goals. We then discussed the details of fabric development. In this final article in the series, we look at how to enable Performance Manager to enhance your fabric application to meet service monitor requirements.

Make composite business services adaptable with points of variability

Creating flexible service-oriented business solutions with WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Part 1: Overview (2008 June)
WebSphere Business Services Fabric provides an SOA platform to enable a new class of service-oriented business solutions. Business Services Fabric provides an integrated environment to model, assemble, deploy, manage and govern composite business services. This series of articles introduces you to WebSphere Business Services Fabric and shows you how to use it to build composite business services.
Part 2: Extending the ontology models (2008 June)
Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding and orchestration. In Part 2, you'll learn how to model the variability points in the business process as ontology extensions using the Fabric Modeling Tool.
Part 3: Designing and implementing the business service (2008 September)
Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding and orchestration. In Part 3, you'll implement a composite business process and enable it with dynamic binding and orchestration capabilities.
Part 4: Creating metadata for the business process (2008 November)
Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding and orchestration. Part 4 of this series describes how to create metadata for a business process based on the Fabric Business Service Model. This metadata enables users to reuse and extend existing components, and enables dynamic endpoint selection at run-time.
Part 5: Testing the application (2009 February)
Learn how you can leverage the features of WebSphere Business Services Fabric to build composite business applications that support dynamic binding and orchestration. In the final article in this 5-part series you'll learn how to deploy and test the application that you've built in the previous parts of the series.

IBM Websphere Business Services Fabric Related tutorials

Develop and Deploy Multi-Tenant Web-delivered Solutions using IBM middleware

Part 1: Challenges and architectural patterns
Web-delivered solutions that follow a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model -- where customers subscribe to software and access it from a service provider site rather than get licenses and have software installed on their premises -- can offer compelling business value for businesses of any size. Solution developers who develop new solutions or transform existing solutions and service providers who deploy these solutions are faced with several technical challenges. One example is multitenancy, where a single instance of the software, running on a service provider's premises, serves multiple organizations. This article series describes different patterns to address these challenges, often using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques. Also learn how IBM software products can help you build and deploy scalable, configurable, and cost-effective multitenant Web-delivered solutions.
Part 2: Approaches for enabling multi-tenancy
Part 1 of this series describes what multi-tenancy is and presents several technical challenges for building and deploying multi-tenant web-delivered solutions. In this article, we identify five representative approaches for enabling multi-tenancy in web-delivered solutions (also known as software-as-a-service) and compare their costs and benefits.
Part 3: Resource sharing, isolation and customization in the single instance multi-tenant application
This article focuses on the single shared application instance based on the multi-tenancy enablement model. It introduces the multi-tenant resources sharing, isolation and customization mechanisms of those important J2EE artifacts in such patterns. It also leverages a sample application to illustrate how to design a multi-tenant enabled J2EE application base on IBM middleware software.
Part 4: Design patterns for sharing resources in single instance multi-tenant applications
This article is the fourth in a series which addresses how to develop cost effective, secure and configurable Web deliverable applications by leveraging the multi-tenancy model. This model enables a single, shared application instance with the capability to support multiple client organizations (or tenants) simultaneously, so as to achieve the goal of cost effectiveness through sharing infrastructure and operation resource among tenants.
Part 5: A mediation approach for multi-tenancy and three implementation options
Part 1 of this series described multi-tenancy in a web-delivered business solution (a.k.a Software-as-a-Service) and Part 2 discussed the three different approaches for enabling multi-tenancy. In this article, we focus on the mediation approach for multi-tenancy first introduced in Part 2. We present three implementation options for this approach using different IBM middleware products and compare the relative benefits. The detailed implementation steps for each option will be described in the following three tutorials.
Part 6: Web service mediation proxy pattern for routing multiple tenant requests using WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Part 1 of this series describes multi-tenancy and several technical challenges faced by service providers for deploying multi-tenant web-delivered solutions. In part 5, we presented a mediation approach for addressing this challenge and introduced three implementation options using multiple IBM middleware products. In this tutorial, we describe detailed implementation steps for one of those three options i.e. how to use WebSphere Business Services Fabric in the context of a example multi-tenant banking application scenario also introduced in part 5.
Part 7: A Web service mediation proxy pattern for routing multiple tenant requests using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
Part 1 of this series describes multi-tenancy and several technical challenges faced by service providers for deploying multi-tenant web-delivered solutions. In part 4, we presented a technical challenge on how to enable multi-tenancy for existing single tenant Web services with little or no code changes for shorter time to market and lower costs. We presented a mediation approach for addressing this challenge andintroduced three implementation options using multiple IBM middleware products. In this tutorial, we describe detailed implementation steps for utilizing WebSphere Enterprise Services Bus for enabling multi-tenancy for existing Web services.
Part 8: A Web service mediation proxy pattern for routing of multiple tenant requests using WebSphere DataPower SOA appliance
Part 1 of this series describes multi-tenancy and several technical challenges faced by service providers for deploying multi-tenant web-delivered solutions. In part 4, we presented a technical challenge on how to enable multi-tenancy for existing single tenant web services with little or no code changes for shorter time to market and lower costs. In this tutorial we will present detailed implementations steps using a WebSphere DataPower SOA appliance in combination with Tivoli Access Manager.

Dynamic activity resequencing with WebSphere Business Services Fabric
This article describes how to use the run time dynamicity in IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric to determine the execution order of activities within a business process. Instead of having a complex business process with a given order of activities, the article presents a solution that offers dynamic, real-time service selection rather than a fixed workflow structure. All necessary modeling and implementation steps –- in Business Space and WebSphere Integration Developer –- are explained.

Composite Business Applications in WebSphere Business Services Fabric, Part 1: Authoring a CBA in Business Space
This article series shows you how to create a CBA in Business Space powered by WebSphere, and then make governed changes to the application logic using Business Process Agility widgets.

Model business processes for flexibility and re-use: A component-oriented approach
This article describes a component-oriented approach to business process modeling that allows you to capture process variability and ensure that your model is reusable. It describes modeling patterns and practices in WebSphere Business Modeler that will help you achieve this goal.

Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus: Part 4: Federated connectivity in the enterprise
Driven by increasingly sophisticated business needs, service-oriented architectures have become more widespread, more mature and more sophisticated. A key driver of this growing sophistication is the need for multiple business units to cooperate and contribute to the overall business of the enterprise. From a business perspective, the result is generally called a federation or a federated enterprise. From an IT perspective, the enabler of a federated enterprise is often called a federated ESB, reflecting the role the ESB plays in providing service connectivity in SOA. But the ESB is just one part of an infrastructure that provides service connectivity in SOA, so it is more appropriate to discuss federated connectivity. This article describes the principles of federated connectivity and suggests an approach for creating efficient and effective federated topologies in SOA.

Customize your BPM user interfaces with business spaces
Business Space powered by WebSphere provides a unifying user interface to the products in the IBM BPM suite, based on Web 2.0 technology. This article introduces you to the capabilities, features and functions of Business Space, and shows how you can customize and extend it to fit your needs. (IBM Business Process Management Journal)

Speed CBS development using IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric industry content packs, Part 1: Model phase
The model, assemble, deploy, manage, and governance activities of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development can be time consuming and expensive when delivering new solutions from scratch. Adhering to industry standards is also challenging. This article series explains the end-to-end development of composite business services (CBSs) that leverage assets in the industry content packs of IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric. In this first article in the series, walk through the development process in detail using a case study from the healthcare industry that involves using the IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack. Find out how this content pack's assets accelerate the development of CBSs, thereby reducing the time to build.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1.2: Integrating with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1.2 now offers significant integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.1 (WSRR). The old integration with WSRR no longer exists, as the new integration offers new ways of working with WSRR. This article describes how to use the new integration options.

Introduction to application server clustering with WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Clustered deployments are essential for growing enterprises because they enhance your ability to deliver reliable and scalable SOA solutions. This article provides an overview of how to deploy and configure WebSphere Business Services Fabric in a clustered environment.

Adding custom roles in WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Learn how you can add custom roles to the base WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1 Business Service Model using Rational Software Architect and the Fabric modeling tool. Once you add these roles, you can build policies and assertions around them.

Demystifying WebSphere Business Services Fabric policy evaluation and dynamic endpoint selection
Learn how the WebSphere Business Services Fabric Dynamic Assembler uses content, context and contract to dynamically select service endpoints. You'll learn how policies are used to select candidate endpoints, and how the Dynamic Assembler handles policy conflicts and policy resolution.

Using WebSphere Business Services Fabric with SEEC Web service components
Learn how you can use WebSphere Business Services Fabric in conjunction with SOA Web services provided by SEEC, Inc. using a business scenario that illustrates a customer insurance policy search followed by a policy inquiry. This article is written for architects and developers who want to understand what SEEC and similar well-written, packaged services and Business Services Fabric can do.

Integrate metadata between WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and WebSphere Business Services Fabric
This article shows you how to source service metadata from WebSphere Service Registry and Repository into WebSphere Business Services Fabric, including how to configure Business Services Fabric to enable replication of service metadata between the two products and how to use the sourced data in Business Services Fabric to assemble composite business services.

Dynamic activity resequencing with WebSphere Business Services Fabric
This article describes how to use the run time dynamicity in IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric to determine the execution order of activities within a business process. Instead of having a complex business process with a given order of activities, the article presents a solution that offers dynamic, real-time service selection rather than a fixed workflow structure. All necessary modeling and implementation steps –- in Business Space and WebSphere Integration Developer –- are explained.

Adding custom roles in WebSphere Business Services Fabric
Learn how you can add custom roles to the base WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.1 Business Service Model using Rational Software Architect and the Fabric modeling tool. Once you add these roles, you can build policies and assertions around them.