WebSphere® Business Services Fabric (Fabric) is a comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) offering that is designed to extend the IBM® business process management platform to deliver flexible composite business applications.

In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we provide a complete overview of Fabric, from an architectural introduction, to an installation guide, and a step-by-step scenario that describes how to model, assemble, deploy, and manage composite business applications.

Part 1 of this book is an architectural and technical introduction to Fabric and related concepts.

In Part 2, we use a fictitious business scenario to show you how to build composite business applications in Fabric. We also provide extensive step-by-step instructions.

In Part 3, we discuss how to integrate Fabric with other IBM solutions and technologies, which includes WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Part 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Welcome to this Redbooks publication

Chapter 2. Business Process Management enabled by SOA

Chapter 3. Introduction to WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Chapter 4. Technical overview of WebSphere Business Services Fabric

Part 2. Building Fabric solutions

Chapter 5. Business scenario for this book

Chapter 6. Installing and configuring Fabric

Chapter 7. Overview of developing a Fabric solution

Chapter 8. Modeling Fabric solutions

Chapter 9. Assembling Fabric solutions

Chapter 10. Deploying Fabric solutions

Chapter 11. Migrating Fabric projects across environments

Chapter 12. Adapting to changing business needs

Chapter 13. Best practices and troubleshooting

Chapter 14. Industry Content Packs

Part 3. Integration

Chapter 15. Integrating with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

Chapter 16. Integrating with IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA

Chapter 17. Integrating with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Appendix A. Additional material