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Course Overview

Unit 1

Lesson 1.1: About IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

• • High level overview of the Admin Console with an exercise to start the application

Lesson 1.2: XML and XPath Basics

• • Review the basics of XML and XPath which is heavily used in the application

Lesson 1.3: Basic Business Process Concepts

• • Reviewing what XML and XPath components are used to build business processes
• • Reviewing how to manually execute a business process within the application

Lesson 1.4: Tracking and Troubleshooting Business Processes

• • Exercises to demonstrate how to work with business process instances

Lesson 1.5: Graphical Process Modeler (GPM)

• • Overview of the Graphical Process Modeler
• • Exercises to walk through the development of a business process in the GPM
• • Exercises for checking in, executing, and modifying business processes

Unit 2

Lesson 2.1: Introduction to Service Management

• • Several exercises showcasing specific services/adapters and other functionality

Lesson 2.2: Best Practices

• • Covers specific business process development methods that are best practice

Lesson 2.3: Mapping

• • Introduction to the Map Editor and Standards
• • Exercises to build and use an XML Encoder Map

Lesson 2.4: Typing Map

• • Exercises to build and use a Typing Map

Lesson 2.5: Case Study

• • Exercise to build an end-to-end solution using what was learned in previous exercises

Lesson 2.6: Tracking System Health

• • Review of archiving, migrating, and deleting business processes

Course Wrap-up