SOA for Architects & Managers Training Course

A Service Oriented Methodology

Introduction to a SOA adoption roadmap
Service lifecycle
Three 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

SOA Past and Present

From XML to Web Service to SOA 
How SOA was done before 
Emerging standards for SOA 
Compare SOA with other architectures

What is service oriented architecture?

What is SOA?
Creating a common understanding of SOA 
The evolution of SOA
Introduce the concepts of services and SOA
Design principles of SOA
The relationship between SOA and web services
The advantages and risks of SOA

Introduction to modelling and UML

Why use models with SOA.
Difference between model and methodology.
Why use the Unified Modeling Language? 
Introducing UML, the notation.
Identifying business processes.
Notation, Patterns and Methodology.
Which Methodology to choose?

Fundamental Concepts

Building from components.
Modeling concepts.
What is an object? 
Containment.
Messages and methods.
Object interaction.
Exercise: testing some basic concepts.

Introduction to Business Process

How a collection of services perform a task. 
Simple request response interaction 
Complex interaction involving many services. 
Need for a coordinator service emerges. 
Birth of orchestration or business process. 
Composing processes using processes.
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) 
Example business processes

Service Enablement

Basic web services elements 
Core web services standards stack
The Importance of WSDL
The design of SOAP
The use of registries via UDDI
The basic concepts of service orientation

Distributing Services Across a Network

Aligning functional and nonfunctional requirements
The role of Intermediaries In Service Networks
Introductions to WS-* Extensions
SOA Tenets

Modeling SOA building blocks

Using UML to analyse and design interfaces
Generating a domain model
Implementing and realising Use Cases
Showing web service collaboration
Usage of communication diagrams

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Objectives 
Service Invocation 
Legacy System Integration 
Web Services to the Rescue 
The role of ESB in SOA 
Security and ESB

Process Driven Services

Service layer abstraction
Introduction to business process layer
Process patterns
Orchestration and choreography
The use WS-BPEL for process automation

A Service Oriented Reference Model

Reference models and reference architectures
The IMPACT SOA reference model and architecture
SOA vendors and their relationship with SOA
SOA support in .NET and J2EE platforms

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

Conclusions

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