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Course Description

This course is also available as self-paced virtual (e-learning) course IBM App Connect Enterprise V11 Application Development (ZM668G). This option does not require any travel.

IBM App Connect Enterprise provides connectivity and universal data transformation in heterogeneous IT environments. It enables businesses of any size to eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing, regardless of operating system, protocol, and data format. 

This IBM ACE 11 course teaches you how to use IBM App Connect Enterprise to develop, deploy, and support message flow applications. These applications use various messaging topologies to transport messages between service requesters and service providers, and allow the messages to be routed, transformed, and enriched during processing. 

In this course, you learn how to construct applications to transport and transform data. The course explores how to control the flow of data by using various processing nodes, and how to use databases and maps to transform and enrich data during processing. You also learn how to construct data models by using the Data Format Description Language (DFDL).

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Objectives

  • Describe the features and uses of IBM App Connect Enterprise
  • Develop, deploy, and test message flow applications
  • Generate message flow applications from predefined patterns
  • Use the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit problem determination aids to diagnose and solve development and runtime errors
  • Describe the function and appropriate use of IBM App Connect Enterprise processing nodes
  • Write basic Extended Structured Query Language and Java programs to transform data
  • Use the IBM Graphical Data Mapping editor to transform data
  • Define, use, and test simple XML and Data Format Description Language (DFDL) data models
  • Describe supported transport protocols and how to call them in message flows

Audience

This course is designed for experienced integration specialists and senior-level developers with experience in application development, messaging middleware applications, and transport protocols such as HTTP and FTP.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have:

  • A basic understanding of current IT technologies such as Structured Query Language (SQL), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Java, and XML Path language (XPath)
  • A familiarity with the Eclipse development environment
  • A basic understanding of transport protocols such as HTTP and FTP, and message-oriented middleware such as Java Message Service (JMS) and IBM MQ

Content

Introduction to IBM App Connect Enterprise

Application development fundamentals

  • Exercise: Importing and testing a message flow

 

Creating message flow applications

  • Exercise: Creating a message flow application

 

Connecting to IBM MQ

  • Exercise: Connecting to IBM MQ

 

Controlling the flow of messages

  • Exercise: Adding flow control to a message flow application

 

Modeling the data

  • Exercise: Creating a DFDL model

 

Processing file data

  • Exercise: Processing file data

 

Using problem determination tools and help resources

  • Exercise: Using problem determination tools
  • Exercise: Implementing explicit error handling

 

Mapping messages with the Graphical Data Mapping editor

Referencing a database in a message flow application

  • Exercise: Referencing a database in a map

 

Using Compute nodes to transform messages

  • Exercise: Transforming data by using the Compute and JavaCompute nodes

 

Processing JMS, HTTP, and web service messages

Preparing for production

  • Exercise: Creating a runtime-aware message flow