Migrating Applications from Microsoft DNA to IBM WebSphere.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- What this book is about -- What this book is not about -- The target audience -- Structure of this book -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 Preparing for migration -- Chapter 1. Setting the migration scope -- 1.1 Introduction to migration stages -- 1.2 Migration scope considerations -- 1.2.1 Defining your migration objectives and requirements -- 1.2.2 Taking inventory of your migration scenario -- 1.2.3 Identifying migration skills gaps -- 1.3 Migration scope definition -- 1.3.1 Defining the solution scope -- 1.3.2 Defining the project scope -- 1.3.3 Creating the migration scope -- 1.4 Chapter summary -- 1.4.1 Migration scope recommendations -- 1.4.2 Where to get training information -- Chapter 2. Migration strategies -- 2.1 Introduction to migration strategy -- 2.2 Migration considerations -- 2.2.1 Which architecture topics to consider -- 2.2.2 What transition topics to consider -- 2.3 Analyzing your data -- 2.3.1 Architecture strategy analysis -- 2.3.2 Transition strategy analysis -- 2.4 Chapter summary -- 2.4.1 Migration strategy recommendations -- Part 2 Migration how to -- Chapter 3. Architecture migration -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Windows DNA architecture overview -- 3.2.1 N-tier architectures with DNA -- 3.2.2 Presentation tier -- 3.2.3 Business logic tier -- 3.2.4 Data resource tier -- 3.2.5 Technologies supporting the DNA architecture -- 3.3 Overview of the WebSphere platform -- 3.3.1 The WebSphere family -- 3.3.2 Overview of the J2EE platform -- 3.3.3 J2EE n-tier architecture -- 3.3.4 J2EE presentation tier -- 3.3.5 J2EE business logic tier -- 3.3.6 J2EE data resources tier -- 3.3.7 Technologies supporting the J2EE architecture -- 3.4 Comparison of Windows DNA and WebSphere/J2EE -- 3.4.1 System model.

3.4.2 Component model -- 3.4.3 Persistence -- 3.4.4 Transactions -- 3.4.5 Security -- 3.5 Migrating your Windows DNA architecture to J2EE -- 3.5.1 Application model -- 3.5.2 Architecture model -- 3.6 Chapter summary -- 3.6.1 Architecture migration recommendations -- 3.6.2 Where to get more information -- Chapter 4. Development environment migration -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Software development as a business process -- 4.1.2 Introduction to business driven development -- 4.1.3 Application development imperatives -- 4.2 Overview of the Visual Studio Suite -- 4.2.1 The Visual Studio integrated development environments -- 4.2.2 Visual Studio tools -- 4.3 Introduction to IBM Software Development Platform -- 4.4 Migrating to IBM Software Development Platform -- 4.4.1 Requirements and analysis -- 4.4.2 Design and construction -- 4.4.3 Software quality -- 4.4.4 Software configuration management -- 4.4.5 Process and portfolio management -- 4.5 Chapter summary -- 4.5.1 Development platform migration recommendations -- 4.5.2 Where to get more information -- Chapter 5. Application migration -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Presentation tier -- 5.2.1 Windows DNA presentation tier technologies -- 5.2.2 WebSphere/J2EE presentation tier technologies -- 5.2.3 Comparison of ASP and JSP technologies -- 5.2.4 Client-side programming -- 5.2.5 Server-side programming -- 5.3 Business logic tier -- 5.3.1 Interaction patterns -- 5.3.2 Messaging and queuing -- 5.3.3 Threading -- 5.3.4 Transactions -- 5.4 Data resource tier -- 5.4.1 Windows DNA data resource technologies -- 5.4.2 WebSphere data resource technologies -- 5.5 Chapter summary -- 5.5.1 Presentation tier migration recommendations -- 5.5.2 Business logic tier migration recommendations -- 5.5.3 Data resource tier migration recommendations -- 5.5.4 Where to get more information -- Chapter 6. Runtime migration.

6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Key concepts -- 6.1.2 Clustering -- 6.2 Microsoft clustering solution -- 6.2.1 Network Load Balancer (NLB) -- 6.2.2 Component Load Balancer (CLB) -- 6.2.3 Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) -- 6.3 Introduction to WebSphere Application Server family -- 6.3.1 Stand-alone server configuration -- 6.3.2 Distributed server configuration -- 6.4 IBM WebSphere clustering solution -- 6.4.1 Workload Management -- 6.4.2 Failover -- 6.5 Migrating Windows cluster to WebSphere -- 6.5.1 Migrating clustering in the presentation tier -- 6.5.2 Migrating clustering in the business logic tier -- 6.5.3 Migrating clustering in the resource layer -- 6.6 Security -- 6.6.1 Java Security Model -- 6.6.2 Windows Security Services -- 6.6.3 Authentication -- 6.6.4 Authorization -- 6.6.5 Administration/configuration -- 6.6.6 Web content security -- 6.6.7 Enterprise JavaBeans Security -- 6.7 Chapter summary -- 6.7.1 Runtime migration best practices and recommendations -- 6.7.2 Where to get more information -- Part 3 Appendixes -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.