WebSphere - WAS and WSAD/RationalTechnology Update

Improvements have been made which allow the WebSphere family to leverage the J2EE and web services application platform for building, running, integrating and managing dynamic, on demand business applications.

SYS-ED workshops explain and demonstrate:

• How to build and deploy re-usable application services with a set of tools and interfaces.
• How to run services in a scalable, highly available, environment which ensures business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime.
• How to secure applications and data with a resilient, standards-based security infrastructure that will remove vulnerable threats while maximizing developer productivity.
• How to reuse software assets and extend their reach with standards-based messaging and web services standards that manage applications with administration and monitoring tools.

Administration
The following administrative facilities have been added to the workshops:

• How to use the new Deployment Manager for managing earlier versions of WebSphere Application Server and migrating to the newer infrastructure.
• The utilization of property based configuration for simplifying the automation of administration; the WebSphere Application Server Version 7 configuration can be performed using a property file.
• How to efficiently administer large numbers of WebSphere Application Server base edition and Network Deployment topologies which are geographically distributed.

Application Development
The examples and workshops have been augmented to incorporate WebSphere Application Server's broadened platform support:

• How a business-level application is applied for managing application artifacts independent of packaging or programming models.
• The utilization of SIP: Session Initiation Protocol servlets for standardizing support to interactive user sessions with real-time multimedia elements - voice, video, instant messaging and online games.
• Module-based programming has been enhanced through the certification of Spring for use with WebSphere Application Server.

Note:
On the WebSpheretrainingbysysed.us website, the term WebSphere refers to WAS - WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere family of software. In terms of an efficient learning path and presentation of content for consultancy derived subject matter, a distinction is drawn between WAS and WebSphere MQ. Accordingly, there is a separate MQSeriestrainingbysysed.us website.