This course will provide each participant with a high-level understanding of the role that Service-Oriented Architecture in IT application development and deployment.. This course will focus on the current IT business challenges, emergence of Service infrastructure, components of the SOA model, Web services, Enterprise Service Bus, business process modeling, XML utilization (SOAP, WSDL, etc), concepts of SOAD, legacy application integration, development tools the role of BPEL and BPM, vendor product support, SOA governance risk and benefit issues and SOA best practices.

All aspects of this class will incorporate the specific case studies of successful implementation of SOA techniques.

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of application development and design methodologies.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Designed for programmers, managers, project leaders, enterprise architects and other technical individuals that need to understand the SOA model.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Understand SOA business challenges
• Depict evolution and emergence of Service infrastructure
• Define SOA components and individual roles
• Understand the Enterprise Service Bus
• Depict Web services in SOA environment
• Define the role of SOAP and WSDL
• Illustrate the concept of Business Process Modeling
• Demonstrate the implementation of SOAD processes
• Discuss the stages in SOAD methodology
• Depict the integration of legacy systems into Service infrastructure
• Understand the implementation of the Process Server
• Define the role and interaction of the application server, MQSeries, Message Broker, ESB and Process Server
• Compare ESB and Message Broker
• Illustrate the transformation and mediation provided by the ESB
• Depict the role of SOA governance and best practices