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WebSphere Message Broker provides an advanced enterprise service bus, delivering universal connectivity and data transformation. The following introductory information describes the high level concepts of the product and some basic tasks, including how to use this information center and how to use the Message Brokers Toolkit.
Use the links in this section to help you start developing your own WebSphere Message Broker applications. Links are also included to help you understand message broker concepts that might be useful when you develop your own applications. You can also use the WebSphere Message Broker Samples to help you develop your own applications. Most of the samples provide working examples of applications and demonstrate the features available in WebSphere Message Broker. In order to run samples or deploy and test your own applications, you must have created a broker domain.
You can use the Default Configuration wizard to create a basic broker domain for testing applications.
In order to test and run your message broker applications you must set up a broker domain. The broker domain is one or more brokers that share a common configuration, together with a Configuration Manager that controls them. Use the links in this section to find out how to plan, configure and administer your broker domain.
Use the following links to get additional information about using WebSphere Message Broker: