Microsoft Visual Studio is widely used on Windows to compile applications, but configuring Visual Studio with WebSphere MQ is challenging. This article shows you how to configure and compile WebSphere MQ applications using the Visual Studio GUI.  

Throughout the history of the IT industry, integration has been an important part of most projects. Integration of transactions, integration of data, or integration of processes have their own challenges and associated patterns and anti-patterns. In an age of mobile, social, and cloud, integration is more important than ever, but the scope of the challenge that is facing IT projects has changed. Partner application programming interfaces (APIs), social networks, physical sensors and devices, and many others are important sources of capability or insight. No longer is it sufficient to...

Part 1 of this article series introduced the new message mediation capability, which WebSphere DataPower implemented in the 5.0.0 version of the appliance firmware. This article, which is Part 2 of the series, will explain how to extend these capabilities even further by enabling the use of custom policy vocabularies to deploy specific proxy processing patterns not covered by the built-in policy domains. The article will guide you through the steps necessary to define...

"DataPower Customers Benefit From Centralized Governance of Business Transactions

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API management products, announced today that it is releasing a new version of its Policy Manager software with expanded security features for IBM WebSphere DataPower. The new product greatly simplifies DataPower administration by automating complex security and provisioning scenarios. This lowers the total cost of ownership, speeds up service deployment, and...