Learn how a SOA can give you the often sought-after competitive edge

SOA for Designers and Developers

Hands-on course contents

What you will learn:

A Service Oriented Methodology 

• Introduction to a SOA adoption roadmap
  
• Service lifecycle
  
• Different analysis approaches
  
• Service oriented analysis
  
• Service oriented design
  
• Introduction to service oriented patterns
  

Advantages of SOA

• Traditional EAI Approach
  
• Problems With Traditional EAI Approach
  
• Enter Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  
• Build the Services
  
• We Can Easily Change the Process
  
• Change Flow Using Legacy Approach
  
• Replacing an Application
  
• Other Advantages
  
• Business Advantages
  
• Adoption Stages
  

Defining a Service in WSDL

• Sample WSDL Document Structure
  
• One-way
  
• Request-Response
  
• Solicit-Response
  
• Syntax
  
• SOAP Binding Example
  
• WSDL SOAP Binding Extensions
  

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

• Objectives
  
• SOAP Overview
  
• Why do you need SOAP?
  
• SOAP In Protocol Stack
  
• Header Attributes
  
• SOAP Body
  
• SOAP Fault
  
• Document/Literal Style
  
• Document/Literal Wrapped Style
  
• Details of the Wrapped Style
  
• Connecting to a Webservice
  

Service Oriented Analysis & Design

• Objectives
  
• Stages of SOAD
  
• Identifying services
  
• Producing service specifications
  
• Functional areas of the business
  
• Services belonging to these functional areas
  
• Functionalities belonging to these services
  
• Documenting service hierarchy
  
• Best practices
  
• Analyzing the case study requirements
  

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

• Objectives
  
• Service invocation
  
• Legacy system Integration
  
• Web services to the Rescue
  
• The role of ESB in SOA
  
• Security and ESB
  
• Configuring a simple ESB solution
  

Business Process Implementation

• Business Process Diagram
  
• Challenges in Process Implementation
  
• BPEL4WS
  
• Partnership
  
• Example: a Buy-Sell Partnership
  
• Modeling Partnership in BPEL
  
• Variables
  
• Simple Activities
  
• Invoke Activity
  
• Structured Activities
  
• Lifecycle of Process Development
  
• Testing correlation examples
  
• Implementing a simple process
  

Messaging Architecture

• What is messaging and why do we need them?
  
• How to use messaging in SOA?
  
• SOAP over JMS details.
  
• Modeling services well suited for messaging.
  
• Correlation and why do we need them?
  
• How to use correlation in SOA.
  
• How to implement publish subscribe in SOA?
  
• Sample scenarios
  

Layered Architecture

• The layers pattern.
  
• Classic three-their architecture.
  
• Connecting to the domain layer.
  
• Linking to the User interface.
  
• Using packages to decompose a system.
  
• Avoiding mutual dependencies.
  
• What is layering and why we need them?
  
• Application service layer
  
• Business service layer
  
• Orchestration service layer
  

Transaction Management

• The ACID properties.
  
• Local vs. distributed transaction.
  
• New challenges with transaction in SOA.
  
• Transaction from a specific service call.
  
• Transaction in a long running business process.
  
• What is compensation and why do we need them?
  
• Exercise: implementing compensation
  

Software Platform for SOA

• Software Tools for SOA
  
• The Need for a Tool
  
• SOA Development Life Cycle
  
• Oracle BP Manager
  
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006
  
• Rational Application Developer (RAD)
  
• Key Features
  
• Web Services Support
  
• Runtime Products for SOA
  

Conclusions

• New implementation paradigms
  
• The benefits of employing SOA
  
• Review of common business goals
  
• The risks associated with the SOA approach
  
• Evaluating tradeoff strategies