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Designed to provide leading-edgeintegration-development capabilities
WebSphere Integration Developer,Version 6.0 focuses on developerproductivity by providing easy-to-useauthoring tools that enable you torapidly build and debug compositebusiness-integration applications.Combined with other developmenttools like Rational ApplicationDeveloper and WebSphere BusinessModeler, it provides comprehensivesupport for your enterprise developers.Together, WebSphere Process Serverand WebSphere Integration Developerprovide comprehensive services toenable the development of compositeintegration applications. These servicecomponents include:
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Business processes
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Human tasks
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Business-state machines
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Business rules
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Interface maps
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Business-object maps
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Relationships
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Selectors
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Java objects
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Imports and exports for Web services,adapters, JMS and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Business processes
The business-process componentin WebSphere Process Server andWebSphere Integration Developeruse a WS-BPEL technology-compliantprocess engine. WS-BPEL defines amodel and a grammar for describingthe behavior of a business processbased on interactions between theprocess and its partners. Support forWS-BPEL includes:
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An improved business-processeditor with an easy-to-useauthoring experience
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Intuitive drag-and-drop tools tovisually define the sequence and flowof WS-BPEL business processes
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A visual business-process debugger to step through and debug WS-BPELbusiness processes
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Long- and short-running business processes
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Compensation support to providetransaction rollback-like function for loosely coupled business processes thatcannot be undone automatically by the application server
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Integrated fault handling to provide an easy and integrated means of performing in-flowexception handling
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The ability to include Javasnippets and artifacts as part of abusiness process
Human tasks
WebSphere Process Server andWebSphere Integration Developerprovide human-task support thatexpands the reach of WS-BPEL toinclude activities requiring humaninteraction as steps in an automatedbusiness process. Business processesinvolving human interaction can be
interruptible
and
persistent
(a personmight take a long time to complete thetask) and can resume when the personcompletes the task. Human-tasksupport includes:
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The ability to invoke human tasks from a business process to representa step in a business process that is performed manually
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The ability to assign people to specificinstances of a process using staff queries that are resolved at run timeusing an existing enterprise directory
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A graphical browser-based interfacethat can be used to query, claim, workwith, complete and transfer work itemsto another user
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JavaServer Faces (JSF) components tocreate custom clients
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Advanced work-item managementsupport that enables users to create,transfer and delete work items
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Dynamic setting of duration and calendar attributes for staff activities
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