Introduction of IBM Integration Bus

IBM Integration Bus(IIB) is an Enterprise Service Bus(ESB) which provides connectivity across enterprise systems and applications.

IIB is a powerful middleware tool by IBM where it transforms and routes the data from any where to any where.

• Supports different types of protocols and data formats.
• You can route, filter, transform, enrich, monitor, distribute, correlate, and detect the data
• You can perform mapping by using graphical mapping, Java, ESQL, and XSL
• Supports publish-subscribe along with IBM MQ.
• Can create and use reusuable patterns for generic solutions.

Components of IIB

Integration Node

• Routes, transforms, and enriches the in-flight messages as determined by the message
  flows and their message models
• Also, known as runtime engine of IIB.
• there can be many integration nodes, which can run on different systems to avoid system failures.

Integration server

• Group of message flows which are assigned to a integration node.

Message flow

• Defines sequence of operations which are to be performed on the data.
• Message flows are used to route and transform the message.

IIB Integration Toolkit

• An eclipse based GUI for integrated development environment.
• Deploy the message flows on to Integration Nodes.
• Supported both in windows and linux.

IBM Integration API

• Java administration API
• Used to control integration nodes and their resources remotely like deploying flows, change properties, check logs etc.

Integration Project

• Container where you create and maintain all the resources like Message flows, Subflows, Message maps,ESQL files, Database definitions, BAR files.