The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization’s cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes that achieves strategic business objectives, integrates verticals, optimizes core work, and creates a framework for continuous improvement. This methodology is an IBM intellectual property that is used in BPM engagements but not available in detail to readers of the IBM Redbooks publication outside of IBM.

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WebSphere® Application Server is the implementation by IBM® of the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE™ ) platform. It conforms to the Java EE 5 specification. WebSphere Application Server is available in unique packages that are designed to meet a wide range of customer requirements. At the heart of each package is a WebSphere Application Server that provides the runtime environment for enterprise applications.

This discussion centers on the runtime server component of WebSphere Application Server .

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the concepts, planning, and design of WebSphere® Application Server V7.0 environments. The content of this book is oriented to IT architects and consultants who want more information for the planning and designing of application serving environments, ranging from small to large and complex implementations.

This IBM Redbooks publication addresses the packaging and the features incorporated into WebSphere Application Server, covers the most common implementation topologies, and addresses planning for specific tasks and components that conform to the WebSphere Application Server environment.

The book includes planning for WebSphere Application Server V7.0 and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0 on distributed platforms, and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V7.0. It also covers migration considerations for migrating from previous releases

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IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software v7.5 (for short, Rational Application Developer) is the full function Eclipse 3.4 based development platform for developing Java™ Standard Edition Version 6 (Java SE 6) and Java Enterprise Edition Version 5 (Java EE 5) applications with a focus on applications to be deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal. Rational Application Developer provides integrated development tools for all development roles, including Web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and enterprise programmers.

This book consists of nine parts:

• Introduction to Rational Application Developer
• Architecture and modeling
• Basic Java and XML development
• Persistence application development
• Enterprise application development
• Test and debug applications
• Deploy and profile applications
• Management and team development
• Appendixes

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This week, IBM has published another draft RedBook. This time it covers some best practices for the WebSphere Process Server.

This book contains the following topics:

Chapter 1. What is WebSphere Process Server Solution Recovery?
Chapter 2. Recovery patterns, anti-patterns, rules and good ideas
Chapter 3. Preventive practices
Chapter 4. Where does the data go when failures occur?
Chapter 5. Recovery scenarios
Appendix A. Troubleshooting tips

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A new redbook has been published. It’s a draft version that includes a technical overview of the runtime server component of the new version of the WebSphere Application Server.

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