WMB for beginners

WMB is an ESB from IBM. To learn WMB or any ESB tool, you need to understand the concepts of ESB and Integration and then the vendor specific products. This post is for those who are new to ESB world and is looking for some instructions or directions to learn WMB basics.

To begin with, go through the basics and concepts of Integration and service Bus. Read the below articles to learn concepts of application integration and messaging patterns.

EAI – enterprise application integration
EAI Basics
messaging patterns
EAI vs ESB vs SOA

Then coming to WMB – you must have very basic idea of IBM’s MQ – Websphere MQ. Read the MQ primer which is a very good starting point for learning MQ concepts.
WMQ Primer PDF

Now you should download and install developer edition of IBM Integration bus.

For setting up IIB dev edition, you can refer this article

Refer the IBM redbook for WMB Basics (Red book) (Even this is for an older version of WMB, many concepts remain same)

Try the samples from the samples gallery in IIB Toolkit.

Go through the below articles for more samples and study materials:

Self Study Labs

IBM Labjam Pdf

Recommended to read:

Read the :
SOA concepts
Service oriented architecture

Read about basics of message protocols:

HTTP Basics
TCP/IP Basics
FTP basics
ftp-basics
Webservices
SOAP
Basic database knowledge

And in general, you supposed to have basic Unix skills, networking skills, database skills, ESQL skills etc.

I would like readers to post their suggestions and add more learning info that may help beginners…

Happy learning…. 🙂