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Interoperability between WebSphere Business Events (Business Events), WebSphere Process Server (Process Server) and WebSphere Enterprise Server Bus (ESB) has improved in V6.2. Some of the changes are:
- Events and actions have specific, rather than generic, schemas, which makes mapping easier.
- A new event emitter primitive, Business Event Emitter, encapsulates the ESB-to-Business Events part of the integration.
- New sample scripts are provided that show how to establish communication between the products at the messaging level.
- For the Business Events actions processing in ESB, support has been added for the pattern where specific processing is defined for each type of action.
- Support for formatting result events to send to Business Events has been added in the form of two new primitives. These primitives, Business Events Send Success and Business Events Send Failure, can be used in a mediation flow to indicate to Business Events when the processing of an action has been succesful or has failed. Note: This is a new topic, which was not covered in in the V6.1 article.
As in V6.1, ESB is a key part of the integration between Business Events and Process Server. With ESB transforming event data into application-specific data, actions identified in Business Events can drive any amount of processing in applications running on Process Server.
The rest of the article describes the integration between Business Events and ESB. You can use the same steps to integrate Business Events with Process Server, using the mediation module described here as the key component for the integration. The mediation module can be combined with other Process Server artifacts as required, but the integration is achieved using the mediation module.
The focus of this article is V6.2 ESB-to-Business Events integration. We'll define a sample (and very simple!) Business Events project. Only the definition of events and actions really matters for the integration. A real Business Events application is likely to have various filters to determine patterns, but this won't change the shape of the integration solution.
Event processing is typically added to an existing ESB integration solution. This part of the solution, including typical mediation functions like service invocations, message transformations or filtering is omitted here for reasons of brevity. Only Business Events-specific processing is shown.
In this article, you'll learn:
- How to create the connectivity that eliminates the need for the Business Events connectors to be running, effectively making ESB act as a Business Events connector.
- How to configure the event emitter primitive to an ESB flow and add the V6.2-specific mapping
- How to add the processing of Business Events actions in a flow using the pattern of one method per action
- How to add ESB-specific information to result events and how to send result events from an ESB flow into Business Events.
Overview of the scenario
Figure 1 shows a representation of the integration solution that we'll build in this article. The scenario is built using Integration Developer V6.2 IFix and Business Events V6.2 Fixpack 1.
Figure 1. The scenario
For Business Events, we'll use a very simple project, in which MyEvent always triggers MyAction. The action has an associated result event called ResultEventForMyAction that triggers a new action ActionForResultEvent.
In ESB, we'll have two types of flow: one that emits events into Business Events and one that processes actions and sends result events into Business Events.
In the execution flow:
- A message arrives from an external source and triggers processing in a ESB flow. As part of the flow, the message is transformed and is sent into Business Events using the primitive (1) .
- Business Events receives the event which triggers processing that, in this example, means an action will always be generated (2)
- The action is processed by ESB. As part of the action flow, a result event is sent to Business Events. The result event generates the new action in Business Events. (3)
- The new action is received and processed by an ESB flow.
Note: The event generation, action processing, and action processing followed by result event generation are three independent aspects of the ESB-to-Business Events integration. The example from this article illustrates all of those aspects, but a particular integration solution could have only of them.
Download the project
Before you begin, you need to download the Business Events project. This very simple project defines one event, one action, one result event and the action it generates. There are two simple rules with no filters, as shown in Figure 2:
Figure 2. Interaction sets
Business Event Processing with WebSphere Business Events, Part 4: Integrating Business Events with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server describes in great detail how to create events and actions, as well as intermediate objects and the mappings. We won't go over that again in this article.
Load the project file in the Business Events Design Data tool, then open the repository and add everything to the repository, as described in Moving assets into production in the Business Events Information Center.
Enable connectivity
In Business Events V6.2, you can establish connectivity between ESB and Business Events at the JMS level. There are various ways to achieve this. Business Events V6.2 provides sample scripts to support this. The scripts define interbus links between the Service Component Architecture (SCA) application bus in ESB and the Business Events bus. In addition, the ESB script defines the JMS resources that enable the Business Events related artifacts to run out-of-the-box.
Achieving connectivity at JMS levels eliminates the need for the Message Queue connector to be running (as described in the V6.1 integration article), thus significantly improving performance.
You can run the scripts that come with Business Events V6.2 to create and modify the necessary bus and JMS resources without requiring any user intervention. This approach is recommended for development and testing scenarios and small deployments. The sample scripts are in <WBE>\integration\WESB\features\runtime\samples. Comprehensive comments and help for running the scripts is provided in the scripts themselves and as comments.
The scripts take as parameters machine, server, node and cell names, as well as SIB port numbers. Therefore, it's recommended that you collect these values before running the scripts.
- Start the servers and check the following values in administrative
console and fill them in as follows:
Machine Server Node Cell Port ESB PUTNA server1 PUTNANode01 PUTNANode01Cell 7276 Business Events COZIA server COZIANode01 7276
- From WESB\bin, the general syntax of the wsadmin command is:
wsadmin.bat -lang jython -f /path/to/configure_WESB_SIB_JMS_messaging.py scope local_host_name local_SIB_messaging_port local_server_name remote_ host_name remote_SIB_messaging_port remote_node_name remote_server_name
Assuming that the script has been copied locally, with these values, run the scripts as follows:
wsadmin.bat -lang jython -f configure_WESB_SIB_JMS_messaging.py server PUTNA 7276 server1 COZIA 7276 COZIANode01 server1
The script creates a foreign bus link with the ESB's SCA application bus.
- From WBE\WAS\bin, the general syntax of the wsadmin command is:
wsadmin.bat -lang jython -f configure_WBE_SIB_JMS_messaging.py local_host_name local_SIB_messaging_port local_server_name remote_host_name remote_SIB_messaging_port remote_cell_name remote_node_name remote_server_name
Assuming that the script has been copied locally, with these values, run the scripts as follows:
wsadmin.bat -lang jython -f configure_WBE_SIB_JMS_messaging.py PUTNA 7276 server1 COZIA 7276 COZIANode01Cell COZIANode01 server1
The script creates a foreign bus link with the Business Events bus and creates the JMS resources (topic connection factory, topics, activation specification) that enable the ESB artifacts to run out of the box.
Build the integration solution
As mentioned earlier, this article focuses on the ESB integration for Business Events. It includes a Project Interchange file of the final solution that you can import into WebSphere Integration Developer (Integration Developer), or you can follow the instructions below to build the project from scratch.
The instructions assume that you have started Integration Developer and created a new mediation module called WESBtoWBEIntegration62.
We'll show you how to send events into Business Events, how to process actions and how to add result events.
Send events to Business Events
Business Events V6.2 exposes a specific event and action schema for each different item. To download and export the V6.2 sample project and schema, do the following:
- First download Article62Test.xml .
- In Design Data, open the Article62Test.xml project.
- Right-click MyEvent, then select Event Properties.
- On the Event tab, click Export examples and schemas and
select WBE packet schema => v6.2 Format, and click
Save, as shown in Figure 3. Make sure you save the 6.2
Figure 3. Export the schema
Create the interfaces and business objects
Complete the following steps to import the interfaces and business objects into your application:
- Right-click the WESBtoWBEIntegration2 project in the Business Integration navigator.
- Select File => Import => General => File System.
- Specify the location of the saved EventMyEvent.xsd and check the corresponding box.
- Click Finish.
Note: Alternatively, you can drag the xsd file from your file system and drop it in the WESBtoWBEIntegration62 project in the Business Explorer view.
A new interface is now created in your application. It is called connector, but check the namespace too.
When you explore the structure of the interface, you might find it useful to switch to the Tables view to see the fields in the Event Object, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Tables view
The only business object that you need to create is the one representing the input message. To create this business object, complete the following steps:
- To create a new business object, select the WESBtoWBEIntegration2 project from the Business Integration navigator.
- Select File => New => Business Object, specify
InputObjectin the Name field, and click Finish.
- Click on the icon to add an element, then save it.
- Add the following fields:
Name Type field1 String field2 String field3 Int field4 Boolean
- You need to model an interface for the application so requests can be
received from the client. To create an entryPoint interface, do the
- Select the WESBtoWBEIntegration2 project from the Business Integration navigator.
- Select File => New => Interface, specify
entryPointthe Name field and click Finish.
- Click on the Add one way operation icon , change the Type of the input from string to InputObject, and click Save.
- Create a second interface called toWBEMyEvent with an argument connector (namespace {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/MyEvent}). This interface is used as a target interface for the XSLT mediation primitive to transform the input message to a Business Events event.
You should now have the following interfaces for the application:
|Interface name
|Operation Name
|Connector {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/MyEvent}
Define the assembly diagram
Now you need to define the high-level interactions between the components in the assembly diagram:
- Open the assembly diagram by double-clicking Assembly Diagram in the WESBtoWBEIntegration62 project in the Business Integration navigator. A mediation module has already been created, but it does not include any interfaces or references. We'll correct this later.
- Drag and drop the entryPoint interface onto the assembly diagram, in the pop-up menu select Export with Web Service Binding.
- In the transport pop-up menu, select soap/http. This export will be used by trade clients to access the trading system.
- Create the wire from entryPointExport1 to WESBtoWBEIntegration2.
The assembly diagram should look like Figure 5.
Figure 5. Assembly diagram
Define the mediation module
In this section, we'll create the mediation flows for converting the inbound-specific business object into the Business Events event format for MyEvent.
- Select the operation entryPoint.
- We'll start by defining the request flow for this operation. This
method is invoked when the client sends a request to the service the
mediation flow is to invoke. This external service is not represented
in this example as this is typical WESB function: a client invoking a
service via a mediation module. Only the integration is shown here.
Add the following primitives:
- XSL transformation primitive and rename it FormatMyEvent. We won't complete the configuration of the stylesheet until the wiring has been completed.
- Business Events Event Emitter: This is the new V6.2 primitive, which makes the ESB to Business Events integration easier. Configuration of this primitive is described below.
- Now that you've added the primitives to the canvas, you need to
implement the following wires:
Source Terminal Name Target Terminal Name Input Node Out FormatMyEvent In FormatMyEvent Out WBEEventEmitter1 In
Your mediation flow should look like Figure 6:
Figure 6. Event mediation flow
- Now that you've defined the wiring of the flow, you can configure the
XSLT primitive.
Listings 1 and 2 show the inbound XML and the expected outbound XML, which illustrates the mapping:
Listing 1. Inbound XML
<input1> <field1>field1</field1> <field2>field2</field2> <field3>true</field3> <field4>0</field4> </input1>
Listing 2. Outbound XML
<out2:connector name="TouchPoint" version="6.2"> <out2:connector-bundle name="MyEvent" type="Event"> <out2:EventObj1> <out2:String1>field1</out2:String1> <out2:String2>field2</out2:String2> </out2:EventObj1> <out2:EventObj2> <out2:Int>0</out2:Int> <out2:Bool>true</out2:Bool> </out2:EventObj2> </out2:connector-bundle> </out2:connector>
As described in the V6.1 article, the outbound XML can be separated into two sections: standard template values that will remain the same across the submitted event type (highlighted in blue below) and field elements that are populated from the inbound message.
The constant values are set in the same way as in the V6.1 article. Specify the following:
Attribute Fixed value Connector.Name TouchPoint Connector.Version 6.2 ConnectorBundle.Name MyEvent ConnectorBundle.Type Event
- The second phase of the transformation is to copy the relevant
information from the source to the target map of value pairs. With the
new event specific schema, this mapping is much easier. The values of
the input fields are simply copied in the corresponding event fields.
Map the following:
Field1 /body/operation1/connector/connector-bundle/EventObj1[1]/String1/value Field2 /body/operation1/connector/connector-bundle/EventObj1[1]/String2/value Field3 /body/operation1/connector/connector-bundle/EventObj2[1]/Bool/value Field4 /body/operation1/connector/connector-bundle/EventObj2[1]/Int/value
Figure 7 shows the complete transformation.
Figure 7. Complete transformation to event
- Next, we'll configure the Business Events Event Emitter to ensure that the result of the transformation is sent to Business Events for processing. For the Root attribute, click Browse, and navigate the message tree to select the /body/operation1/connector. Accept the defaults for the other properties, including the JMS-related properties. The default values are correct if the scripts have been used; the mediation primitive will run out of the box. The custom primitive at the end of the flow simply prints a debug message.
- You can now deploy the mediation project by adding it to the ESB server, as described in Deploying modules to the test environment in the Integration Developer Information Center.
Process Business Events actions in ESB flows
Next, you'll learn how to process Business Events actions in ESB flows. The steps are similar to those for events: actions are defined in Design Data, and their schema is exported and then imported into Integration Developer, then interfaces are generated to take the newly generated business objects as arguments.
We'll define a JMS export to represent Business Events and use an interface that has one method for each action type. This is not the only way to design a ESB solution for receiving actions, but it's the approach we'll use in this article.
Set version compatibility for actions
Business Events V6.2 exposes a specific action schema for each different item. You need to select each action in Design Data and make sure the connector version compatibility is set to 6.2. To do this:
- In the Business Events Design Data, right-click My Action and select Action Properties.
- In the Properties dialog, click the Actions tab and do the
- Select 6.2 for Connector Version Compatibility.
- Click Export examples and schemas and select WBE Packet Schema, then click OK, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8. Export V6.2 schema for actions
- Repeat this operation for ActionForResultEvent.
Create the interfaces and business objects
In this section, we'll walk through creating the interfaces and business objects.
To create the business objects, import the two schemas in Integration Developer as you did in Create the business objects and interfaces. Two business objects are created in your application. Both are called connector, as shown in Figure 9, but they have different namespaces. When working with these business objects, make sure you pick the right one.
Figure 9. Data objects
Next, we'll create a new interface for the export representing Business Events. We'll use the approach described Processing actions in WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB in the Business Events Information Center and create one operation for each action with the action as the argument.
We'll use the V6.2 Business Events Action Selector. When this selector is executed on receipt of a message by ESB, it determines which operation from the interface will be invoked to process the message. If the message received is an action generated by Business Events, the selector returns the name of this action. This way, when Business Events generates an action, the operation with the the same name as the action is invoked.
We'll create the following interfaces:
|Interface name
|Operation Name
|Connector {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/MyAction}
|Connector {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/ActionForResultEvent}
Define the assembly diagram
Now we'll update the assembly diagram for WESB_WBE_Integration62. To do this, complete the following steps:
- Drag and drop the fromWBE interface onto the assembly diagram,
- In the pop-up menu, select Export with no Binding. The export is used to receive actions from Business Events for processing,
- Right-click the newly created export and select Generate Binding => Messaging Binding => JMS Binding.
- In the Configure JMS Export Service dialog, shown in Figure 10,
specify the following:
- JMS messaging domain: Publish-Subscribe
- JNDI name for activation specification:
- JNDI name for receive destination:
- Default data format: UTF8XMLDataHandler
- Function selector: WBE Action Selector. Note: You'll need to use Business Events V6.2 Fixpack 1 to be able to select WBE Action Selector among the available function selectors.
Figure 10. Create JMS binding
- Wire fromWBE to WESBtoWBEIntegration2.
The assembly diagram should look like Figure 11:
Figure 11. Completed assembly diagram
- Right-click the mediation component and select Synchronize Interfaces and References => To implementation.
- To define the mediation module, select MyAction. In a real application, we would add the processing of the action to this flow. In this example, we'll have a custom mediation that prints the object it receives to the console.
- Add a similar custom primitive for the ActionForResultEvent
operation, as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12. Sample flow for processing actions
- Deploy the updated mediation application to the runtime and invoke the
entryPoint interface with Web Services Explorer. In the ESB
system.out. log you should see an entry for MyAction that looks like
[10/02/09 16:56:08:703 GMT] 0000005d SystemOut O WESB_WBE_Integration62 : MyAction : fromWBE -> ProcessAction [10/02/09 16:56:08:906 GMT] 0000005d SystemOut O <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <p:ServiceMessageObject xsi:type="p:ServiceMessageObject" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ac="http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/MyAction" xmlns:wbe="wsdl.http://WESB_WBE_Integration62/fromWBE" xmlns:wbe_1="http://WESB_WBE_Integration62/fromWBE" xmlns:p="http://www.ibm.com/websphere/sibx/smo/v6.0.1"> ..... <body xsi:type="wbe:MyActionRequestMsg"> <wbe_1:MyAction> <ac:connector name="WBE" version="6.2"> <ac:connector-bundle id="97A7B5DC9BD09BD011DDEECAA334FFB8" name="MyAction" type="Action" workflow="FACE"> <ac:ActionObj1/> <ac:ActionObj2/> </ac:connector-bundle> <ac:system>L3AAM4F</ac:system> <ac:timestamp>2009-02-10T16:56:08.218Z</ac:timestamp> <ac:loginfo>This is an event from IBM WebSphere Business Events</ac:loginfo> </ac:connector> </wbe_1:MyAction> </body> </p:ServiceMessageObject>
This proves that the request coming from the Web Services Explorer has been transformed into an event. The event was received by Business Events and MyAction was generated by Business Events and then received by the processing action part of the ESB flow.
In the next section, we'll add result events to the processing of actions.
Add result events to mediation flows for processing action
First, let's look at what result events are, when they're useful and how to define them in Design Data. Then we'll see how an ESB flow processing action flow can send result events into Business Events.
Without this function, ESB would not be a proper Business Events connector and Business Events interaction sets based on result events will not be triggered is ESB processes actions.
What are result events?
A result event is a set of objects that can be returned from a touchpoint by a technology connector as the result of an action being sent to that touchpoint. This event in turn generates one or more actions.
In other words, the connector can indicate to Business Events whether the processing of the actions was successful. In order for ESB to be a full Business Events connector, it needs to be able to send result events. These result events can contribute to further patterns that Business Events can identify.
Result events were not covered in the V6.1 article.
Create result events
Now let's create a result event, as we did in the attached project.
- In Design Data, right-click MyAction and select Insert Event
=> Result of This Action, as shown in Figure 13.
Figure 13. Insert an event
- Accept the default (to make one event object for each action object) and click OK. This generates a result event with the same name as the action, MyAction. Design Data shows the result event as MyAction => MyAction. To avoid confusion, rename the event ResultEventForMyAction.
- Add a new event object by selecting, Insert => Event Object => Template from the Event Object.
- Select Connection => _Wesb_Result, as shown in Figure
14. This adds an event object with information that is specific to
Figure 14. Insert event object
Once the result event is defined, you can use it in Business Events like any other event, you can define mappings to intermediate objects and interaction sets triggered by its arrival.
- Export the result event schema and import it into Integration Developer. Another business object called connector is created, this time with namespace {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/ResultEventForMyAction}.
Create a new interface
The result event primitives format the result event. The actual sending is achieved by wiring it to a JMS import representing Business Events. In this section, we'll create a new interface that will be associated with this import.
The interface toWBEResultEvents has a single one-way method with a single parameter of type connector with namespace http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/ResultEventForMyAction.
Create a new interface called toWBEResultEvents with a single one-way method and a single parameter of type connector with namespace http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/ResultEventForMyAction.
The table below shows a complete list of all the interfaces for the ESB project that we have created in the previous sections, with all operations being one-way:
|Interface Name
|Parameter Type
|Connector {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/MyEvent}
|Connector {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/MyAction}
|Connector {http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/ActionForResultEvent}
|Connector (namespace http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/ResultEventForMyAction
Update the assembly diagram
Make the following modifications to the assembly diagram:
- Drag and drop the toWBEResultEvents interface onto the assembly diagram.
- In the pop-up menu, select Import with no Binding. The import is used to submit result events to Business Events for processing.
- To define the binding for the import, right-click the import, and select Generate Binding => Messaging Binding => JMS Binding.
- In the Configure JMS Export Service dialog, specify the following
- JMS messaging domain: Publish-Subscribe
- Connection Factory:
- Destination:
- Default data format: Click Select. In the Data Transformation Configuration wizard, select XML and click Next, as shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15. Select data format transformation
- On the Data transformation properties page, enter
connectorfor Document root name and
http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Event/ResultEventForMyActionfor Document root namespace, as shown in Figure 16.
Figure 16. Specify data transformation properties
- Click Next and then Finish.
- Once the binding is generated, select the import and in the Properties
view, change the default message type from Byte to Text,
as shown in Figure 17, and save your changes.
Figure 17. Change default message type
- In the assembly diagram, connect the mediation component with the JMS
import. The final diagram should look like this:
Figure 18. Completed assembly diagram
- Next, you need to add the primitives for formatting result events to the mediation flow. To do this, right-click the mediation component and select Synchronize interfaces and references to implementation.
- In the Operation connection part of the mediation flow editor,
connect the MyAction operation with operation1, as shown
in Figure 19.
Figure 19. Mediation flow for processing MyAction
- In this example, the custom mediation ProcessAction simply prints its content. We'll connect it to the Business Events Send Success primitive. This will indicate to Business Events that the processing has succeeded.
- The Business Events Send Success primitive has only one property
describing the location of the incoming action in the message tree. If
the ProcessAction primitive was to modify the message, the
incoming action would first have to be saved in the transient context,
and then the transient context would be the value specified as the
property on WBESendSuccess primitive. Since
ProcessAction does not modify the message, specify
body\MyAction\connectorfor the Root property of the WBE primitive, and save the project.
- Install the application as described in Deploying modules to the test environment in the Integration Developer Information Center.
- Invoke the entryPoint interface using the Web Services Explorer.
- In the System.out for ESB, you should see the two actions received from Business Events, indicating communication going backwards and forwards between ESB and Business Events.
The ESB System.out file now contains the second action, too (omitting message headers for brevity), as shown below:
[29/01/09 17:46:43:156 GMT] 0000017a SystemOut O WESB_WBE_Integration62 : ActionForResultEvent : fromWBE -> LogActionForResultEvent [29/01/09 17:46:43:156 GMT] 0000017a SystemOut O <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <p:ServiceMessageObject xsi:type="p:ServiceMessageObject" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:event="http://wbe.ibm.com/6.2/Action/ActionForResultEvent" xmlns:wbe="wsdl.http://WESB_WBE_Integration62/fromWBE" xmlns:wbe_1="http://WESB_WBE_Integration62/fromWBE" xmlns:p="http://www.ibm.com/websphere/sibx/smo/v6.0.1"> <context/> <headers> </headers> <body xsi:type="wbe:ActionForResultEventRequestMsg"> <wbe_1:ActionForResultEvent> <event:connector name="WBE" version="6.2"> <event:connector-bundle id="549CCA3DC380EE2C11DDE216C152BE02" name="ActionForResultEvent" type="Action" workflow="FACE"> <event:ActionObj1> <event:String1 type="String">1</event:String1> <event:String2 type="String">2</event:String2> </event:ActionObj1> <event:ActionObj2> <event:Int type="Integer">4</event:Int> <event:Bool type="Boolean">true</event:Bool> </event:ActionObj2> </event:connector-bundle> <event:system>screenda-t61</event:system> <event:timestamp>2009-01-29T17:46:43.015Z </event:timestamp> <event:loginfo>This is an event from IBM WebSphere Business Events</event:loginfo> </event:connector> </wbe_1:ActionForResultEvent> </body> </p:ServiceMessageObject>
You have now completed the ESB - Business Events integration! In the final section, we'll take a look at some common problems related to the integration and how to fix them.
Troubleshooting ESB – Business Events integration issues
This section describes a few problems you may encounter and how to resolve them.
- Connectivity has not been established.
If you're using the scripts, remember to restart the servers after running them. Check that connectivity has been achieved either by verifying in Application Server administrative console that the messaging engines for the Business Events bus and SCA.application bus in ESB are started, or by looking in both server logs for messages of this type:
[14/01/09 10:53:42:808 GMT] 00000087 SibMessage I [:] CWSIT0032I: The inter-bus connection WbeSibLink from messaging engine TISMANANode05.server1- SCA.APPLICATION.TISMANANode05Cell.Bus in bus SCA.APPLICATION.TISMANANode05Cell.Bus to messaging engine TISMANANode01.server1-WbeBus in bus WbeBus started. [14/01/09 10:55:33:747 GMT] 0000008a SibMessage I SCA.APPLICATION.TISMANANode05Cell.Bus: TISMANANode05.server1- SCA.APPLICATION.TISMANANode05Cell.Bus] CWSIP0382I: Messaging engine 2D8A6DC035BED981 responded to subscription request, Publish Subscribe topology now consistent. [
- Events from ESB are not reaching Business Events.
Turn on Business Events events tracing and check whether any event touches Business Events or any actions are generated. Check that the connectivity has been established.
- Binding errors occur when processing actions with the Business
Events action selector.
Check that the interface associated with the export has operations for all actions that Business Events generates. If some are missing, either ignore the errors (they are to be expected in this case) or add JMS selectors to the activation specification in the Application Server administrative console.
- A ClassCastException is coming from the primitives or from the
export representing Business Events.
Possible causes of this are:
- The event or action definition in Business Events has changed since the schemas were imported in Integration Developer. The two must be in synch,
- The corresponding interface might not have the right connector object. Check the namespace.
- The ESB log shows the error message "Unable to find
Make sure that the com.ibm.wbe.sibx.runtime_18.104.22.168.jar has been added to <WESB>\lib\ext.
- Integration Developer starts but there is no Business Events
category on the mediation primitive palette.
Do the following:
- Check that the Business Events add-on has been installed
- Restart Integration Developer with the
In this article, you learned how to create an application that demonstrates the integration points between WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Business Events V6.2. You also learned how to deal with common problems associated with the integration. The improved integration of these products makes it possible to bring to ESB service integration solutions or Process Server business process management solutions the capabilities of Business Events to detect, evaluate, and react to event patterns to meet the business objectives. Business Events adds live event pattern detection and the dynamic processes to respond to these patterns to the business process management space.
|Sample Business Events project
|Completed mediation module
- Business Event Processing with WebSphere Business Events, Part 4: Integrating Business Events with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server (developerWorks 2008): Part 4 of this series shows you how to build a WebSphere ESB mediation module to interact with WebSphere Business Events V6.1. This is the V6.1 version of the current article.
- WebSphere Business Events: Get product information, including features, benefits, demos and trial downloads.
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In the late 1960s a wave of Mexican rock heavily influenced by jazz-rock and funk rock emerged in several northern border Mexican states, in particular in Tijuana, Baja California. Among the most recognized bands from this "Chicano Wave" (La Onda Chicana in Spanish), there is one in particular that was recognized by their originality. The band Love Army derived from the Tijuana Five and was formed by Alberto Isordia (aka El Pajaro), Salvador Martinez, Jaime Valle, www.jaimevalle.com (aka El Perro), Fernando Vahaux, Ernesto Hernandez(aka El Blu), Mario Rojas (aka El Muerto)and Enrique Sida.
Love Army in the early 1970s[edit]
Caminata Cerebral[edit]
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8442214/The%20Love%20Army%20-%20Caminata%20Cerebral.mp3 Caminata Cerebral written and arranged by Jaime Valle (aka El Perro) http://www.jaimevalle.com/, and vocalist Alberto Isordia (aka El Pajaro) was the most representative song of these times. It was also recorded in English (Walk Within My Brain). It reflected the state of the Mexican conterculture and the position of the Mexican youth against the government of that time.
The lyrics of Caminata Cerebral (Walk Within My Brain) (Author: Jaime Valle and Alberto Isordia) begin:
- Tell me what's that that you're saying / I don't think I heard it well
- Why keep talking for so long / Without having much to say
- Cause I don't believe / that xxxx were coming
- Just passed this mess again
- The truth is I believe / I'd rather walk within my brain
Festival de Rock y Ruedas de Avandaro[edit]
Love Army was one of the bands announced to perform in the Avandaro Rock y Ruedas (Rock and Wheels) Festival later the album "The Love Army en Avandaro" was released
The Acapulco era at the Tiberio's[edit]
After the success of hits like: Walk within my brain, The Door is open to your heart (Tambien tu tiempo llegara) and I will be in love, the band spent several months performing at the Tiberio's bar in Acapulco, Mexico.
Other songs of the Love army group are: "Di por que" " I will be in love" "Mañana" "Ser libre" "Tal Vez" " The door is open to your heart" " Tu eres mi amor "Tu tiempo llegará" y "Caminata Cerebral" Versions in Spanish and English.
The public broadcasting of the song "Caminata Cerebral" AKA "Walk Within My Brain," was forbidden by the Mexican law due to "subversive lyrics."
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As the dust settles after the negotiation of an ambitious global agreement in Paris, Geoff Lye offers his assessment of its significance.
23 years ago, I left Rio full of optimism – confident that a range of Earth Summit agreements, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, would set us on a sustainable path well before I would have any grandchildren. When I got back to the UK, I made a video to persuade clients of the company I was then building to take environmental issues more seriously. In practice, not only were many of my forecasts simply wrong, but my spirit of optimism was misguided. In 1992 I had four young children. Returning for the Rio+20 conference, I had four young grandchildren – and I was struck by how little progress we had made; worse, on most measures, we had tracked significantly in the wrong direction.
So, on a train to London as COP 21 finally closed with a truly ambitious agreement, I was – in contrast to the first blog of this series – once again seeing the climate glass as half full. In fact, I see it as much more than half full. This agreement – voted on behalf of over six billion global citizens – fires the starting gun on a quest to deliver a carbon neutral economy within the lifetimes of our grandchildren. It would be easy to highlight the many potential loopholes and future roadblocks in the agreement, but the agreement does, I believe, change the nature of the debate and shifts the framing of decarbonising our economies irreversibly.
In the final hours of the Paris Conference, Geoff Lye offers his assessment of the latest draft text emerging in Paris.
The penultimate conference text was released last night and reflects remarkable progress. The mood music is good. And there is widespread optimism that the 'Paris Agreement' will be voted through tomorrow. As I predicted, it was inevitable that extra time would be needed to work through the sticking points and the negotiators and ministers are guaranteed another sleepless night. I also predicted progressive dilution from the draft text brought to Paris and, inevitably, there has been some – but huge advances have been made. Even the way the agreement is worded gives a sense of compromise made in good faith and in the proper spirit; deficiencies are acknowledged and carried forward to be addressed in the years before the agreement comes into force by '1 January 2020 at the latest'.
At the heart of the latest draft text are the statements of overall intent and purpose. The agreement sets its overarching goal as to 'hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.' It also sets an aim for countries 'to reach the peaking of greenhouse house gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country Parties, and to undertake rapid reductions thereafter towards reaching greenhouse gas emissions neutrality in the second half of the century'. These are not, of course, as forceful or as rapid as many would like to see, but they represent profound shifts from any global agreement we have ever seen in the past.
Having arrived in Paris last Friday for COP 21, Geoff Lye reports on highlights of a whirlwind of weekend events. This is the latest in his blog series on COP 21. For more, read his earlier posts.
COPs can be very frustrating. Not simply in terms of the pace and direction of the UN negotiations, but also on account of the multiplicity of competing events at any time of any day – from breakfast through dinner . In practice, choosing which events to go to is a bit of a gamble; and I knew before I came that attending a COP is like panning for gold. You have to sit through and sift through a torrent of PowerPoints and panel sessions for the elusive sparkles. A few nuggets have emerged from the pan (as it were) and I have highlighted them in this blog.
But first, my assessment of where the negotiations had gotten to by Monday evening. It is, of course, a fast changing picture, but there is a real spirit of optimism – in spite of some critical sticking points. The consensus seems to be that there is now agreement on where we don't want to go (above 2 degrees), but not on how we won't get there! [You may want to read that twice]. The text released on Saturday has reduced the overarching goal to a choice between 1.5°C and 'well below 2°C' as the warming threshold to be avoided. The tough part – still to be agreed – is setting the timelines for decarbonisation and agreeing how the burden of delivery is shared. Those issues will, no doubt, go to the wire on Friday (or, more likely into Saturday).
As COP 21 gets underway, Geoff Lye considers the role of business to help deliver the decarbonisation needed to avoid breaching the 2°C threshold – the ultimate goal of the Paris climate talks.
This is the second in a series of blogs Geoff Lye will produce in the run up to COP 21 and through the conference itself. His blogs from most COPs since the Bali conference in 2007 can be found here .
This is the first in a series of blogs I will produce in the fortnight running up to COP 21 and through the conference itself. As a regular attendee and reporter from most COPs since the Bali conference in 2007, I must admit to a feeling of déjà vu. The world's leaders will be coming together in yet another of the UN's last chance climate saloons to try to deliver a global agreement to avoid breaching the 2°C threshold.
After COP 17 in Durban I decided, in frustration at the lack of progress, not to attend future events. Yet here I am – travel and hotels booked – excited once again in anticipation of joining the biggest ever assembly1 of climate professionals, activists, politicians, technologists, scientists and economists. For the first time, however, I have failed to get accreditation to the UN's Blue Zone – and I know that my blogs will be weaker for that. But at this COP, most of the most interesting events and networking venues are outside the formal conference. This will create a far more open environment for most attendees and I can guarantee that there will be no shortage of surprising, inspiring and, in equal measure, depressing stories over the coming weeks.
The momentum around fair and responsible tax practices continues to build. I was struck by a recent comment from Britain's highest paid executive who decided he should support responsible tax practice by disclosing that he pays all UK taxes with minimal tax avoidance (i.e. the legal ways of reducing tax bills). He believes, he says, 'that if you want to be accepted in society you have to be seen to be paying your fair share'. His disclosures come hard on the heels of public denouncements of aggressive tax avoidance by David Cameron as 'morally wrong' and by a Treasury minister as 'morally repugnant'. Nor is this issue restricted to the UK. Personal tax affairs feature strongly in the US Presidential elections. And the French billionaire CEO of Louis Vuitton was widely pilloried for seeking to shift his domicile to Belgium – allegedly to avoid the new 75% tax rate….
At the end of the Rio+20 Summit Ban Ki-moon agreed to meet the 9 'major groups' who have a formal role in the preparatory process and the conference, they include business, trades unions, scientists and young people's NGOs. In practice, only four representatives of the groups were invited to speak. I was struck by the pointlessness of this process, …
It looks as though Unilever's Paul Polman decided to take Rio very seriously and has been an active participant in many events here. If anyone doubts his sincerity, they would just need to hear him talk about how the current market system has failed so many on this planet. He spoke at Rio+20 at an event organised by Avoided Deforestation Partners. APD's founder, Jeff Horowitz is an amazingly self-deprecating man who has had a major influence on the movement to have forests valued as natural capital and thereby avoid deforestation….
There is increasingly talk of partnerships and 'pre-competitive collaboration' and this is one bright spot in the corporate landscape that was reinforced by Unilever's Paul Polman at a High Level (UN speak for 'you'll be in good company') lunch at the Rio+20 Business Day. It was a strange affair.
Having pretty much recovered from having my iPhone, iPad and laptop stolen (and having also pretty much recovered from one of the worst bouts of flu in my life), today in Rio was, on balance, a great day. People often ask me whether I am optimistic generally on the sustainability front and I find myself repeating that I wake up an optimist and go to bed a pessimist. And so it looks today.
Fast-moving industries involved in the production of consumer goods, food, apparel and precious stones have all come under pressure about the provenance of materials, components and products in their supply chains. Many companies in these sectors have responded by developing mechanisms to assure customers and consumers that products can be traced and sourced with environmental and social considerations in mind. Such traceability has reshaped expectations of corporate accountability and transparency.
Attention is now turning to oil and gas. The sector is already facing a reputational crisis following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the WikiLeaks disclosures and recent events around the Keystone XL oil pipeline and controversy in the UK over the European fuel quality regulation means that it is likely inevitable that there will be growing demand for greater transparency. As in other sectors, traceability will be a key feature of the rising tide…
Sustainable consumption has been high on our agenda in recent months. Most recently, our latest report Signed, Sealed… Delivered? highlights the diminishing returns from sustainability labels and calls for sustainability to be 'built-in' rather than 'bolt-on' (or, in this case, labelled-on) to consumer brands.
So with my antennae sensitised for unsustainable consumption, I was stunned to flick through the Financial Times' Weekend magazine Christmas Unwrapped and read endless exhortation of excessive consumption…
This is the last in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: one, two, three, four, five, and six.
Back in the UK now and reflecting on the news filtering out this (Sunday) morning. Given the threat yesterday of a chaotic collapse, with echoes of Copenhagen, I was relieved to hear of the final outcome. The very best was never going to be equal to the full climate challenge we face, but this COP has made some major strides in securing a long-term mitigation roadmap with 'legal force'.
This is sixth in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: one, two, three, four, five, and seven.
As the high-level ministerial segment reaches its final day, there are many tired faces around the centre, including some needing a lunch time nap as in the picture below.
A surprising exception is Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC and responsible for getting a good set of outcomes in the next 24 hours. I have attended two progress briefings she has given. The first – and by far the more interesting – was a meeting with the youth groups…
This is fifth in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: one, two, three, four, six, and seven.
One of the joys of COPs is that strange things happen which make you realize that these grand UN events are as vulnerable to human foibles as a local school fete. I stayed on (and on) at the conference centre to join a business briefing by Jonathan Pershing, the US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change. He is a very approachable man of huge integrity whom I first met in Bali at COP 13 when he was still at WRI. When he was later sworn in to his new position as US Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change under the Obama administration, I was delighted.
Fourth in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: one, two, four, five, six, and seven.
People who know me also know that I am a great believer in serendipity. As I was driven this morning to the city's Botanical Gardens for The Durban Dialogue organised by B4E, I spotted a Nando's restaurant and immediately thought of Sir David King who, when he arrived in Oxford to direct the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, agreed to meet me at their temporary offices. These were, as he explained to me as I called for directions, 'behind Nando's'. Amazingly, and serendipitously, standing near the registration desk a few minutes later was David himself. With surprise and delight, I told him of the Nando's connection. He looked underwhelmed.
This is third in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: one, two, four, five, six, and seven.
Given SustainAbility's growing interest in bringing voices of the future into the board room and in mobilising Gen Y as a source of inspiration and innovation to corporate sustainability thinking, I've been looking out for how visible and vocal youth organisations have been here in Durban.
The second in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: one, three, four, five, six, and seven.
In the lift to my hotel room this morning, I was embarrassed to be sweating profusely after a run along Durban's beach promenade under a blue sky in 25 degrees with high humidity (yes, hard work at these COPs!). As the lift doors closed, a delegate from a COP 17 side event leaped in. 'It's freezing in the conference,' she said, 'I'm heading for my room to get a jumper.' The irony was not lost on others in the lift, but it did highlight for me the continuing disconnect between the rhetoric and action. And Durban does not look remotely well set to close the gap between the two.
This is the first in a series of posts about and from COP 17. Others in the series can be found here: two, three, four, five, six, and seven.
Durban will briefly be in the climate spotlight just months before the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit. Few of us at Rio in 1992 would have believed that so little progress would be made in the intervening years. At the time, I had four children of school age. Frankly, the UN process has served neither them, nor my four grandchildren, well since. Climate procrastination has put future generations (with over two billion 'climate innocents' to be born by 2050) at severe risk of increasingly dangerous climate disruptions. We have seen how national and international governments and institutions responded to the 2008 financial crisis in just two crucial days, but also how, in two crucial decades, they have achieved very little on the much deeper climate crisis. Nature neither defers decisions nor haggles; nor, as widely observed after the financial crisis, does nature do bailouts.
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- Modernizing data protection
- Cloud concerns and gaining confidence
- Does garbage big data in result in big garbage data out
- Flash and DRAM, Dejavu or something new?
- Little data, big data, very big data or big BS?
- How many degrees of separation between you and your information
- RAID, IOP's and performance observations
- Not all applications and thus backup, BC and DR should be treated the same
Recently Hans followed up and sent me some comments and asked if I would be willing to share them with others such as who ever happens to read this. I also suggested to Hans that he also start a blog (here is link to his new blog), and that I would be happy to post his comments for others to see and join in the conversation which are shown below.
Hans Breemer wrote:
Hi Greg, we met each other recently at the Dutch Storage Expo after one of your sessions. We briefly discussed the current trends in the storage market, and the "risks" or "threats" (read: challenges) it means to "us", the storage guys. Often neglected by the sales guys...
Please allow me a few lines to elaborate a bit more and share some thoughts from the field. :-)
1. Bigger is not better?
Each iteration in the new disk technologies (SATA or SAS) means we get less IOPS for the bucks. Pound for pound that is. Of course the absolute amount of IOPS we can get from a HDD increases all the time. where 175 IOPS was top speed a few years ago, we sometimes see figures close to 220 IOPS per physical drive now. This looks good in the brochure, just as the increased capacity does. However, what the brochure doesn't tell us that if we look at the IOPS/capacity ratio, we're walking backwards. a few years ago we could easily sell over 1000 IOPS/TB. Currently we can't anymore. We're happy to reach 500 IOPS/TB. I know this has always been like that. However with the introduction of SATA in the enterprise storage world, I feel things have gotten even worse.
2. But how about SSD's then?
True and agree. In the world of HDD's growing bigger and bigger, we actually need SSD's, and this technology is the way forward in an IOPS perspective. SSD's have a great future ahead of them (despite being with us already for some time). I do doubt that at the moment SSD's already have the economical ability to fill the gap though. They offer many of thousands of IOPS, and for dedicated high-end solutions they offer what we weren't able to deliver for decades. More IOPS than you need! But what about the "1000 IOPS/TB" market? Let's call it the middle market.
3. SSD's as a lubricant?
You must have heard every vendor about Adaptive Storage Tiering, Auto Tiering etc. All based on the theorem that most of our IO's come from a relative small disk section. Thus we can improve the total performance of our array by only adding a few percent of SSD. Smart technology identifies the hot tracks on our disks, and promotes these to SSD's. We can even demote cold tracks to big SATA drives. Think green, think ecological footprint, etc. For many applications this works well. Regular Windows server, file servers, VMWare ESX server actually seems to like adaptive storage tiering ,and I think I know why, a positive tradeoff of using VMDK's. (I might share a few lines about FAST VP do's and dont's next time if you don't mind)
4. How about the middle market them you might ask? or, SSD's as a band-aid?
For the middle market, the above developments is sort of disaster. Think SAP running on Sun Solaris, think the average Microsoft SQL Server, think Oracle databases. These are the typical applications that need "middle market" IOPS. Many of these applications have a freakish IO pattern. OLTP during daytime, backup in the evening and batch jobs at night. Not to mention end of month runs, DTA (Dev-Test-Acceptance) streets that sleep for two weeks or are constantly upgraded or restored. These applications hardly benefit from "smart technologies". The IO behavior is too random, too unpredictable leading to saturated SATA pools, and EFD's that are hardly doing more IO's than the FC drives they're supposed to relief. Add more SSD's we're told. Use less SATA we're told. but it hardly works. Recently we acquired a few new Vmax arrays without EFD or FASTVP, for the sole purpose of hosting these typical middle market applications. Affordable, predictable performance. But then again, our existing Vmax 20k had full size 600GB 15rpm drives, with the Vmax 40k we're "encouraged" to use small form factor 600GB 10krpm drives. Again a small step backwards?
5. The storage tiering debacle.
Last but not least, some words I'd like to share with you about storage tiering. We're encouraged (again) to sell storage in different tiers. Makes sense. To some extent it does yes. Host you most IO eager application on expensive, SSD based storage. And host your DTA or other less business critical application on FC or SATA quality HDD's. But what if the less business critical application needs to be backed up in the evening, and while doing so completely saturates your SATA pool? Or what if the Dev server creates just as many IO's as the Prod environment does? People don't seem to care it seems. To have people realize how much IO's they actually need and use, we are reporting IO graphs for all servers in our environment. Our tiering model is based on IOPS/TB and IO response time.Tier X would be expensive, offering 800 IOPS/TB @ avg 10ms
Tier Y would be the cheaper option offering 400 IOPS/TB @ avg 15 ms
The next step will be to implement front end controls an actually limit a host to some ceiling. for instance, 2 times the limit described in the tier description. thus allowing for peak loads and backups.
Do we need to? I think so...
Greg, this small message is slowly turning into a plea. And that is actually what it is, a plea to our storage vendors, and to our evangelists. If they want us to deliver, I feel they should talk to us, and listen to us (and you!).
Hans Breemer
ps, I love my job, this world and my role to translate promises and demands into solutions that work for my customers. I do take care though not to create solution that will not work, despite what the brochure said.
pps, please feel free to share the above if needed.
Here is my response to Hans:
Hello Hans good to hear from you and thanks for the comments.
Great perspectives and in the course of talking with your peers around the world, you are not alone in your thinking.
Often I see disconnects between customers and vendors. Vendors (often driven by their market research) they know what the customer needs and issues are, and many actually do. However I often see a reliance on market research data with many degrees of separation as opposed to direct and candied insight. Likewise some vendors spend more time talking about how they listen to the customer vs. how time they actually do so.
On the other hand, I routinely see customers fall into the trap of communicating wants (nice to haves) instead of articulating needs (what is required). Then there is confusing industry adoption with customer deployment, not to mention concerns over vendor, technology or services lock-in.
Hope all else is well.
Cheers gs
Check out Hans new blog and feel free to leave your comments and perspectives here or via other venues.
Ok, nuff said.
Cheers Gs
Greg Schulz - Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)
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Health-related issues such as public health, how many people have health insurance, and attitudes toward healthcare reform influence the attitudes people have about a state. Are you concerned by Georgia's public health trends? Do you agree with the policy decisions related to Obamacare in Georgia? This summary of selected issues can help you decide.
Georgia health ratings
The state of Georgia has not fared particularly well in recent state health rankings, in part due to issues such lack of health insurance and poor dental healthcare.
The Peach State placed 46th in overall health among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the 2015 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, dropping one position from 2014. The state ranked in the bottom 25 percent on 14 of 46 measures, including uninsured adults and children; children with emotional, behavioral or developmental problems who received needed mental healthcare in the past year; obesity in children; and percent of adults who have lost six or more teeth because of tooth decay, infection or gum disease. See Georgia's scorecard for more details about its ranking on individual health indicators.
In the 2014 America's Health Rankings, Georgia placed 38th and placed in the bottom 25 percent on 11 of 33 core measures, including lack of health insurance, low birthweight, dentists and infectious disease. The state ranked well when it came to having a low number of occupational fatalities.
While the data is not summarized into an overall score, the 2015 edition of Trust for America's Health scores a range of individual public indicators; see Key Health Data About Georgia. Finally, you can review county-by-county health rankings for Georgia from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Georgia and the Affordable Care Act
Georgia politics are dominated by Republicans at the federal and state levels, and the Affordable Care Act is deeply unpopular.
In the 2010 vote on the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted no. Sen. John Isakson is listed as not voting on this particular piece of legislation; he has been firmly opposed to the ACA and sponsored legislation for the law's repeal. In the House, seven Georgia Republican and two Democratic representatives voted no, while four Democratic representatives voted yes.
At the state level, Gov. Nathan Deal and Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens stand out as two of the law's harshest critics. Georgia defaulted to the federally facilitated health insurance marketplace and did not expand Medicaid. Georgia was among the states that imposed restrictions on navigators, who were intended to help consumers enroll in the marketplace.
During its 2014 session, the Georgia Assembly passed laws that prohibit the establishment of a state-run marketplace, disallow the use of taxpayer money for navigator programs, and forbid government employees from advocating for Medicaid expansion.
How has Obamacare helped Georgia?
From 2013 to 2014, the uninsured rate in Georgia dropped from 21.4 percent to 19.1 percent. By mid-2014, the uninsured rate fell to 15.3 percent, a total change of 6.2 percentage points, slightly higher than the 5.3 percentage-point change experienced in other states that implemented either a state-run marketplace or Medicaid expansion or implemented neither of those measures
The failure to expand Medicaid expansion or implement a state-run exchange (in many states, an indication of ACA opposition) and limitations on navigators are all factors in the moderate decline.
Georgia enrollment in qualified health plans
Just more than 316,500 Georgia residents enrolled in qualified health plans (QHPs) during the 2014 open enrollment period. That's 29.8 percent of eligible enrollees, above the national average of 28 percent. Of those enrolling in a QHP, 87 percent qualified for tax subsidies to make the premium cost more affordable.
During the 2015 open enrollment period, 541,080 people enrolled in a QHP through Georgia's exchange. As happens nationwide, some of those individuals dropped their coverage or failed to make their initial premium payments. By June 30, 2015, there were 417,890 people still enrolled; 90 percent of them were in plans with advanced premium tax credits and 67 percent were receiving cost-sharing subsidies.
Nine carriers are offering 2016 plans through Georgia's health insurance exchange:
- Aetna Health
- Alliant
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia
- Cigna
- Harken Health Insurance – new to the exchange for 2016
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente
- Peach State Health Plan
- UnitedHealthcare HMO
Time Insurance previously offered individual coverage through Georgia's exchange; however, the company left the market nationwide.
In Georgia, the average benchmark premium increased 6.1 percent for 2016; lower than the average of 7.5 percent among all 37 states that used HealthCare.gov in 2015.
Georgia Medicaid
Georgia's decision against Medicaid expansion leaves 305,000 individuals in the coverage gap, meaning they don't qualify for either Medicaid or the ACA's premium subsidies to help offset the cost of private insurance.
Despite the state's lack of Medicaid expansion, Georgia Medicaid enrollment has increased 14 percent from 2013 to 2015 – the 30th biggest change in enrollment among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Georgia's Medicaid program is not open to non-disabled adults without dependent children, and is only available for parents of dependent children if their household income is under 35 percent of the federal poverty level.
Visit the Georgia Department of Community Health website for information about Georgia's Medicaid programs.
Other ACA reform provisions
The ACA's Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program encourages the creation of nonprofit, consumer-run health insurance issuers Twenty-three CO-OPs received funding in the form of loans totaling $1.98 billion, and 12 have folded. No CO-OP plans were created in Georgia.
Medicare in the state of Georgia
Georgia Medicare enrollment reached 1.5 million in 2015, about 14.8 percent of the state's population compared with 17 percent of the total U.S. population enrolled in Medicare. Historically, in Georgia, 78 percent of Medicare recipients qualify based on age alone while 22 percent are on Medicare as the result of a disability.
Medicare spends about $9,835 annually per recipient in Georgia, and the state ranks 11th in terms of overall spending on Medicare with $11.7 billion per year.
Georgia Medicare beneficiaries may choose a Medicare Advantage plan instead of original Medicare as a way to gain some additional benefits. Thirty-two percent of Georgians enrolled in Medicare have selected a Medicare Advantage plan instead of a traditional Medicare plan. About 41 percent of Georgia Medicare recipients are enrolled in Medicare Part D to gain stand-alone prescription drug coverage. Nationwide, 32 percent of Medicare recipients are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans and 43 percent have Medicare Part D coverage.
State-level reform in Georgia
Here's what's happening at the state level with healthcare reform in Georgia: