JBoss ESB -- JBoss ESB -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Prologue - the need for an ESB -- Preface -- What is "JBoss"? -- JBoss is also a community -- What is Open Source and what are its advantages? -- What is middleware? -- What is an SOA? What is an ESB? -- What is JBoss ESB? -- What capabilities does JBoss ESB have? -- Why JBoss ESB? -- What is JBoss ESB's relationship with SOA? -- What resources does the JBoss ESB community provide? -- Online forums with a difference -- The user forum -- The developer forum -- Other useful documents -- Mailing lists -- JIRA announcements and bugs -- Live chat -- What are the JBoss project and product models? -- What this book covers -- Chapter bibliography -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - heading -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Downloading JBoss ESB -- Downloading and installing an application server -- Time for action - downloading and installing JBoss AS -- What just happened? -- Choosing which JBoss ESB distribution is right for you -- Time for action - downloading and installing jbossesb-4.10.zip -- What just happened? -- Reviewing the contents of jbossesb-4.10.zip -- Time for action - deploying JBoss ESB to JBoss AS -- What just happened? -- Keeping things slim -- Time for action - modifying a profile -- Deployable Java archives -- Testing the installation -- Time for action - testing the installation -- What just happened? -- Looking at logs -- Finding the logs -- Time for action - viewing the deployment of an application in the server.log -- What just happened? -- Consoles.

Time for action - examining an MBean -- What do you do if you see an error? -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 2. Deploying your Services to the ESB -- The quickstarts -- Anatomy of a deployment -- Defining the providers, services, and listeners -- Other deployment files -- Helloworld quickstart -- Time for action - deploying the quickstart -- What just happened? -- Deploying a JBoss ESB archive remotely -- Time for action - accessing the admin console -- Time for action - performing the deployment -- Introduction to JBDS -- Time for action - downloading JBDS -- Time for action - installing JBDS -- What just happened? -- Running JBDS -- Time for action - setting up the ESB runtime in JBDS -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using JBDS to run the quickstart -- Deploying the quickstart in JBDS -- Time for action - deploying the quickstart -- What just happened -- Have a go hero - there are other quickstarts to explore -- Pop quiz -- Summary -- 3. Understanding Services -- Preparing JBoss Developer Studio -- Time for action - opening the Chapter3 app -- Examining the structure of ESB messages -- Examining the message -- Time for action - printing the message structure -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - deploying applications -- Message implementations -- The body -- Time for action - examining the main payload -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - additional body contents -- The header -- Routing information -- Message identity and correlation -- Service action -- Time for action - examining the header -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - additional header contents -- The context -- Have a go hero - printing message context -- Message validation -- Have a go hero - enabling validation -- Configuring through the ConfigTree -- Configuring properties in the jboss-esb.xml file -- Traversing the ConfigTree hierarchy -- Accessing attributes.

Time for action - examining configuration properties -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - additional header contents -- Service pipeline and service invocation -- Lifecycle methods -- Have a go hero - understanding lifecycle methods -- Processing methods -- Time for action - examining exceptions -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - extending from AbstractActionPipelineProcessor -- Dynamic methods -- Have a go hero - multiple process methods -- MEP (Message Exchange Pattern) and responses -- ServiceInvoker -- Synchronous delivery -- Asynchronous delivery -- Time for action - examining exceptions -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experimenting with MEPs and sync delivery -- Composite services -- Service Chaining -- Have a go hero - adding more services -- Service Continuations -- Transactions -- Have a go hero - transactional quickstart -- Security context -- Have a go hero - security quickstart -- Summary -- 4. JBoss ESB Service Actions -- Understanding actions -- What is an action class? -- The action chain -- Custom actions -- Lifecycle actions -- JavaBean actions -- Custom actions using annotations -- Lifecycle annotations -- Processing annotations -- Out-of-the-box (OOTB) actions - how and when to use them -- Scripting -- Services invoking EJBs -- Web services/SOAP -- Time for action - running the quickstart -- What just happened? -- Transformers/converters -- Smooks message fragment processing -- Time for action - running the quickstart -- What just happened? -- Routers -- Time for action - implementing content-based routing -- What just happened -- Have a go hero -- Notifiers -- Time for action - let's see how notifiers work -- What just happened? -- Business Process Management -- Drools -- BPEL processes -- Pop quiz -- Chapter bibliography -- Summary -- 5. Message Delivery on the Service Bus -- The bus.

Preparing JBoss Developer Studio -- Time for action - creating File Filters -- What just happened? -- Time for action - opening the Chapter5 app -- Transport providers -- Time for action - using a File provider -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - examine the contents of a temp file -- InVM transport -- Transactions with InVM transport -- Time for action - testing InVM transactions -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - non transacted InVM listener -- InVM message optimization -- Have a go hero - examine the body address -- Controlling InVM message delivery -- Time for action - using lock-step delivery -- What just happened? -- InVM threads -- Time for action - increasing listener threads -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - threads and lock-step -- Provider configurations -- JMS provider -- Have a go hero - JMS action quickstart -- FTP provider -- Have a go hero - the FTP action quickstart -- SQL provider -- Have a go hero - the SQL action quickstart -- File provider -- Have a go hero - file providers -- Summary -- 6. Gateways and Integrating with External Clients -- What is a gateway and a notifier? -- How do we compose messages? -- Simple composer example -- Preparing JBoss Developer Studio -- The JMS gateway -- Time for action - using the JMS gateway -- What just happened? -- The File gateway -- Time for action - using the File gateway -- What just happened? -- The HTTP gateway -- Time for action - using the HTTP gateway -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using asynchronous behavior -- The HTTP bus and HTTP provider -- Have a go hero - configuring the HTTP provider -- The Camel gateway -- Have a go hero - run the Camel gateway quickstart -- The FTP gateway -- Have a go hero - running the FTP gateway quickstart -- The UDP gateway -- Time for action - using the UDP gateway -- What just happened? -- The JBoss Remoting gateway.

Time for action - using the JBR gateway -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using asynchronous JBR -- The Groovy gateway -- Have a go hero - using Groovy scripts -- The SQL gateway -- Time for action - using the SQL gateway -- What just happened? -- The JCA gateway -- Have a go hero - using the JMS/JCA gateway -- Summary -- 7. How ESB Uses the Registry to Keep Track of Services -- The registry - what, how, and why? -- UDDI the - registry's specification -- jUDDI - JBoss ESB's default registry -- Configuring jUDDI for different protocols -- Looking at jUDDI's database -- Time for action - looking at the jUDDI registry database -- Other supported UDDI providers -- Custom registry solutions -- End-point reference -- Time for action - looking at EPRs -- JAXR - introducing the Java API for XML registries -- Federation -- Load balancing -- Registry maintenance and performance -- Registry interceptors -- Monitoring -- Examining jUDDI query counts -- Time for action - querying the UDDI server -- What just happened -- Pop quiz -- Chapter bibliography -- Summary -- 8. Integrating Web Services with ESB -- Preparing JBoss Developer Studio -- Time for action - preparing the Chapter8 application -- What just happened? -- Time for action - switching consoles -- What just happened? -- Exporting ESB services as a web service -- Time for action - running the sample -- What just happened? -- Action implementation -- Have a go hero - introduce a transformer -- Securing EBWS -- Time for action - securing the sample -- What just happened? -- Other security mechanisms -- ESB web service client -- soapUI client -- Time for action - ESB SOAP client -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - quickstarts -- Request processing -- Request transformations -- Have a go hero - SOAP request header transformation -- Response processing -- OGNL -- Have a go hero - OGNL response.

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