SOA for Architects and Managers Overview Training Course

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Duration

14 hours

Requirements

Corporate IT systems general knowledge required.IT System integration knowledge may be beneficial.

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Date	Venue	Price
2012-02-08 09:30	Manchester	From 1020 to 1450 GBP Check!
2012-02-08 09:30	Bristol, Temple Gate	From 1020 to 1450 GBP Check!
2012-02-15 09:30	London, Westbourne Grove	From 1020 to 1450 GBP Check!
2012-03-13 09:30	Bristol, Temple Gate	From 1020 to 1450 GBP Check!
2012-03-14 09:30	London, Westbourne Grove	From 1020 to 1450 GBP Check!
2012-03-19 09:30	Manchester	From 1020 to 1450 GBP Check!
2012-04-17 09:30	London, Westbourne Grove	From 918 to 1305 GBP Check!
2012-04-19 09:30	Manchester	From 918 to 1305 GBP Check!
2012-05-01 09:30	Bristol, Temple Gate	From 918 to 1305 GBP Check!
2012-06-11 09:30	London, Westbourne Grove	From 918 to 1305 GBP Check!

Overview

This course has been created for managers and architects planning to implement or currently implementing SOA solutions. It gives the overview of pros and cons of SOA and explains when, why and which part of SOA you should use.

Some of the questions the course can answer:

What are the benefits of employing SOA
What are the risks associated with the SOA approach
What are the trade-offs

How to assess potential profit with SOA
What real business case studies has been already made
When and to what extent SOA should be implemented

What are simplification and decomposition benefits
How to migrate from existing solutions to SOA and why migration to SOA does NOT require rebuilding the whole existing infrastructure
How to extend legacy applications with SOA
What are the existing SOA suites and platforms

Course Outline

A Service Oriented Methodology

Introduction to a SOA adoption roadmap
Three analysis approaches
Service oriented analysis

Advantages of SOA

Traditional EAI Approach
Problems With Traditional EAI Approach
Enter Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
We Can Easily Change the Process
Changing 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
Introducing 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

The difference between model and methodology

Why use the Unified Modelling Language?
Identifying business processes

Notation, Patterns and Methodology

Which Methodology to choose?

Introduction to Business Processes

How a collection of services performs 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 Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)

BPM based solutions for orchestration

Example business processes

Web Services

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 non-functional requirements
The role of Intermediaries in Service Networks
Introductions to WS-* extensions
SOA tenets

Modelling 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 of WS-BPEL for process automation

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