Chapter 2. Installing the Development Environment

Having given an overview of what Business Integration is and the fundamentals of SOA and BPM, we will now show how to install and set up your integrated development environment WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and how to get started developing SOA applications using the WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB). We will briefly discuss about WID and explain how it is the authoring environment for WPS and WESB. We will then guide you through how to start working with the tool, explain some of the fundamental concepts associated with WID, perform the various basic tasks like creating workspaces and projects, working with modules, exporting and importing projects—all that is necessary for building, testing, and deploying SOA-based BPM and integration solutions across the WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, and WebSphere Adapters.

This chapter aims to help you with the following topics:

• Overview of WID...