Sign and verify XML documents using Apache WSS4J and WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
by Bob Callaway With the increasing adoption of Web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and nonrepudiability of XML messages has become an essential component of secure and robust messaging infrastructures

WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere ESB advanced topics, Part 2: Data enrichment, transformation, and validation
by Shane Cartledge,Allen Chan,David Lauzon, Dave Spriet This series evaluates approaches and design issues that you need to consider when you design an ESB solution. Part 2 shows you how to perform message enrichment, transformation, and validation with WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere ESB

End-to-end BPEL business activity monitoring with IBM SOA tools: Part 2: Developing a BPEL workflow application in WebSphere Integration Developer
By Bhargav Perepa, Carol Serna This is the second article in a series that uses IBM WebSphere Integration Developer to import the business process model that you developed in the previous article using WebSphere Business Modeler.

Using JAX-WS and JAXB with WebLogic Server 10
By Mike Wooten JAX-WS (Java Architecture for Web Services) is a standards-based API for coding, assembling, and deploying Java Web services, designed to replace

Manage service availability dynamically using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
By Bhargav Perepa, Christine D. Rothemich This article demonstrates how to perform dynamic service availability management using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

Transforming UML «Activity» Diagrams to WebSphere Business Modeler processes
By Catherine Griffen, Ruo Bo Huang, Zhang Sen, Marc Fiammante This article shows how to automatically transform UML activity diagrams into WebSphere® Business Modeler processes. Requirements analysis is frequently performed using UML, creating activity diagrams to describe business processes. However, UML tools usually do not provide support for cost and duration analysis and simulation, which is why it is important for a model-driven architecture (MDA) approach to be able to reuse the UML diagrams in a more business-oriented fashion.

Make composite business services adaptable with points of variability, Part 4: Using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus mediation modules
By Carl Osipov, Ying Chun Guo Get step-by-step examples for implementing an SCA mediation module in IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and learn the portlet and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process implementation details to support POV in the scenario.

Web services unification with WS-ResourceTransfer
By Vladimir Silva If you're a Web services developer trying to get into the new Web services technologies, you may find yourself confused. There are so many emerging specifications: WS-Resource Framework, WS-Notification, WS-Eventing, WS-ResourceTransfer, etc. This is enough to drive anybody insane. Why so many specifications? What are they all about? Which one should you use? These are some of the questions we' ll try to answer so you can make sense of all the new specifications and make a smooth transition into the next generation of Web services development.

Avoid the dangers of XPath injection
By Robi Sen With the proliferation of simple XML APIs, Web services, and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), more organizations have adopted XML as a data format for everything from configuration files to remote procedure calls. Some people have even used XML documents instead of more traditional flat files or relational databases, but like any other application or technology that allows outside user submission of data, XML applications can be susceptible to code injection attacks, specifically XPath injection attacks.

Building your first WebLogic Event Server Application
By Robin Smith In this tutorial, Robin Smith gives a brief introduction to WebLogic Event Server, and a step-by-step process for creating your first WebLogic Event Server application.