IBM WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker Application Note – Using Message Sets to Implement an ESB

About this manual

The paper describes a design, development, and runtime approach for implementing an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using IBM WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5. It walks through a sample consumer‑electronics retailer scenario, showing how message sets can validate and process SOAP messages and aggregate responses from multiple warehouses.

Design guidelines cover the business scenario and pattern selection, while development guidelines discuss SOAP header/body validation and message set creation. Runtime guidelines illustrate the ESB architecture, including hub and broker components, and provide a product mapping of the software components used.

What's inside

• Introduction
• Design guidelines
• Development guidelines
• Runtime guidelines
• Design alternative: SOAP message parsing
• Product mapping
• Notices

Specifications

Frequently asked questions

Where can I find more information about the SOA profile of the Patterns for e‑business?

See the IBM Redbook "Patterns: Implementing an SOA Using an Enterprise Service Bus with WebSphere Application Server V6, SG24-6494".

How are SOAP messages validated in the ESB according to this document?

Message sets are used to validate SOAP headers and bodies, allowing validation and processing of SOAP messages.