A Guided Tour of WebSphere Integration Developer - Part 1: Get a Driver's View of the WebSphere Integration Developer Landscape

This paper is the first in a series exploring a service-oriented approach to application integration using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer. This first paper provides an overview of WebSphere Integration Developer and its key components and concepts. WebSphere Integration Developer is based on industry standards (notably WSDL, XSD, BPEL, Java, and UML) and is on the leading edge of evolving standards (the Tuscany Service Component Architecture is a good example). To build applications on these standards one uses a set of visual construction tools and higher level concepts, which lets one focus on the business problem, and not have to write masses of J2EE code or be a WSDL rocket scientist. One gets the standards without having to eat, sleep, and breathe them.