IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

This series of IBM Redbooks publications is written for architects and administrators who need to understand the implemented architecture in WebSphere DataPower appliances to successfully deploy it as a secure and efficient enterprise service bus (ESB) product. These papers give a broad understanding of the new architecture and traditional deployment scenarios. They cover details about the implementation to help you identify the circumstances under which you should deploy DataPower appliances. They also provide a sample implementation and architectural best practices for an SOA message-oriented architecture in an existing production ESB environment.

The entire IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances series includes the following papers:

Pass encrypted data through WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and convert it to a JMS payload

This article describes in detail how to instrument WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus to accept SOAP messages containing encrypted portions of data, perform protocol switching, and then forward these messages to a JMS topic where the service providers are registered. You will learn how to:

WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances extension functions for certificate-based XML standard encryption

You will learn how it’s possible to use WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances to promote a PKI. You will learn how to dynamically select a service provider’s certificate, perform standard XML encryption, and forward the encrypted SOAP message to the ESB.

WebSphere ESB for protocol switching of encrypted data

This article gives a complete overview of a real case scenario concerning the healthcare reservation system and described the architectural picture that has been adopted. You also saw step-by-step instructions on how to configure the ESB import binding.