About This Book

This book explains how to plan, develop, and test enterprise integration solutions using Ensemble. InterSystems Ensemble is a superset of the features and options of InterSystems Caché. This book refers you to books in both documentation sets.

This book contains the following sections:

• Introduction

• Programming in Ensemble

• Defining Ensemble Messages

• Defining Business Services

• Defining Business Processes

• Defining Business Operations

• Defining Alert Processors

• Defining Data Transformations

• Defining Business Metrics

• Defining an Enterprise Message Bank

• Using the Ensemble Record Mapper

• Using the Complex Record Mapper

• Handling Batches of Records Efficiently

• Less Common Tasks

• Testing and Debugging

• Deploying a Production

• Life Cycle of a Production and Its Parts

For a detailed outline, see the table of contents.

The following books provide related information:

• Ensemble Best Practices describes best practices for organizing and developing Ensemble productions.

• Configuring Ensemble Productions explains how to perform the configuration tasks related to creating an Ensemble production.

• Developing BPL Processes describes how to write Ensemble business processes using the Business Process Language (BPL).

• Developing DTL Transformations describes how to write Ensemble data transformations using the Data Transformation Language (DTL).

• Developing Business Rules explains how to define business rules that direct business process logic.

• Developing Workflows explains how to incorporate human interaction into automated business processes.

For general information, see Using InterSystems Documentation.